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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Anatole Broyard
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Anatole Broyard
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: July 16
Died: 1990
Died: October 11
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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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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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