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Anatole Broyard Quotes

Type: Critic Quotes Category: American Critic Quotes Date of Birth: July 19, 1920 Date of Death: October 11, 1990 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Anatole Broyard Related Authors: Leslie Fiedler Paul Weyrich Roger Ebert Irving Babbitt Stanley Crouch Andrea Dworkin Robert McChesney Margaret Fuller

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. Anatole Broyard 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 Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. Anatole Broyard 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 Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. Anatole Broyard 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 The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them. Anatole Broyard 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 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 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 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 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 We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. Anatole Broyard When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. Anatole Broyard

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