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Anatole Broyard Quotes

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We don’t simply read books. We become them  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other’s work.  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other’s work.  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) The tension between ‘yes’ and no’, between ‘I can’ and ‘I cannot,’ makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one’s self  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader’s teeth  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Chic is a convent for unloved women  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) In an age like ours, which is not given to letter - writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) People... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other’s work  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) Either a writer doesn’t want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want  (Anatole Broyard Quotes) If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times  (Anatole Broyard Quotes)
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