"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of……" — Anatole Broyard
"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."
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35 Quotes by Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard has 35 quotes on this site.
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater…
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we…
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read…
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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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Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find:…
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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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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A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or…
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The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances,…
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The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness…
— Conrad Grober
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There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all…
— Olaus Murie
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Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral…
— Daniel Gordis
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from…
— Ana Mendieta
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your…
— V.S. Naipaul
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in…
— Carl Jung
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge…
— Petrarch
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Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience…
— Rosy Cole
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded…
— Ross Macdonald
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Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to…
— Ernst Mayr
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The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
— Austin Osman Spare
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Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral…
— Kathy Reichs
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