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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Anatole Broyard
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Anatole Broyard
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: July 16
Died: 1990
Died: October 11
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
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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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We don't simply read books. We become them.
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
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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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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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Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.
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The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
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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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Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
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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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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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