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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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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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There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.
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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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In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.
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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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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
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People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
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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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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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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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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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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
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Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
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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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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress.
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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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