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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
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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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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
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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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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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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
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Chic is a convent for unloved women.
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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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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.
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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
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I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
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Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
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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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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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