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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.
Anatole Broyard
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Anatole Broyard
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: July 16
Died: 1990
Died: October 11
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Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, a centrifugal tendency. In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.
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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.
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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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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
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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.
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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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Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.
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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
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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.
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