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Anatole Broyard Inspirational Quotes (35)

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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
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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.
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A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.
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An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
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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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Chic is a convent for unloved women.
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In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.
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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.
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For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.
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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.
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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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