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We don't simply read books. We become them.
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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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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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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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
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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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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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Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
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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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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
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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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