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Anatole Broyard Quotes

Anatole Broyard quotes

American Critic July 19, 1920 – October 11, 1990

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Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death. - Anatole Broyard in his dislike of "Lending Books" from editor Rabinowitz's collection "A Passion for Books Anatole Broyard
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. Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard quote: "Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned..."
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. Anatole Broyard
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. Anatole Broyard
The most dangerous part of lending books lies in the returning. At such times, friendships hang by a thread. I look for agony, ecstasy, for tears, transfiguration, trembling hands, a broken voice - but what the borrower usually says is, "I enjoyed it." I enjoyed it - as if that were what books were for. Anatole Broyard
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. Anatole Broyard
The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair, and death. Let these revelers feel a chill as they loll on their towels. Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard quote: "When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the..."
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard quote: "If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if..."
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. Anatole Broyard
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.” — Anonymous Curse on Book Theives from the Monaster... Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard quote: "I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about..."
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock. Anatole Broyard
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. Anatole Broyard
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. Anatole Broyard
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. Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard quote: "The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it."
The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it. Anatole Broyard

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