Anatole Broyard Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Anatole Broyard

  Book, Reading, Talking

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• 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

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

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• Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

  Anatole Broyard

  Anxiety, Fiction, Tone

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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.

  Anatole Broyard

  Art, Real, Play

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• A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

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  Progress, Generations, Culture

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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Night

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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.

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  Daughter, Father, Book

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• Chic is a convent for unloved women.

  Anatole Broyard

  Chic, Unloved

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 10 Jan.

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• Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

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  Government, Aristocracy, Might

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• An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

  Anatole Broyard

  Home, Aphorism, Particular

  "Wisdom of Aphorisms". New York Times, April 30, 1983.

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• Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

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  Two, People, Making Love

  Anatole Broyard (2010). “Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir”, p.63, Vintage

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• For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

  Anatole Broyard

  Sex, Women, Years

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