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"19 Anatole Broyard Quotes & Sayings

      American     /     View profile
Born: 16 July 1920 | Writer | Critic | Editor |

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Contents Bookcase History Ancestral
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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

People Love She Drowned
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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.
Book Good Read Great
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Feel Lending Book Fathers
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death.

Love Truth Beauty Wisdom
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A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Book Read Haunt Importune
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Moment Book Lent Begin
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome Poem Service City
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Friends Stop Frank Useful
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We Tourists History Irony
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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.

One Paradoxes American Litrature
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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.

Tension Yes No Can
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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.

Time Nothing Children Obedience
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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.

Like Book Slowly Read
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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.

Something Real People Stage
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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.

Age Given Letter-writing Important
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For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Years Using Role Sex-object
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The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Divorce World Tragedy Necessarily
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Anatole Broyard Quotes & Sayings