"A whole generation of writers dined out on……" — Anatole Broyard
"A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors."
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35 Quotes by Anatole Broyard
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People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later…
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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of…
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
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