Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. - Anatole Broyard Quotes
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. Anatole Broyard
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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. - Anatole Broyard Quotes

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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 American Critic
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 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.

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 Books And Reading
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. - Anatole Broyard Quotes

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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 American Critic
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

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 American Critic Love
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. - Anatole Broyard Quotes

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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 American Critic Peace
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. - Anatole Broyard Quotes

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.

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The tension between

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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 American Critic Tension
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one. - Anatole Broyard Quotes

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

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 Tragedy
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 Quotes

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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 American Critic Love
She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. - Anatole Broyard Quotes

She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.

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 Spirit
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