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Letter "A" » Anatole Broyard Quotes
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.»
Author: Anatole Broyard
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Writers
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forgot, for a while, His father, Paris, terrace, terraces
«The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.»
«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.»
Author: Anatole Broyard
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America and Americans,
Literature
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American literature, nostalgia, paradoxes, with nostalgia
«She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.»
«Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.»
Author: Anatole Broyard
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America and Americans,
Anxiety,
Sorrow
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classical, fosters, Native American, ruefulness, the Classical
«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.»
«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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