"The tension between yes and o, between I……" — Anatole Broyard
"The tension between yes and o, 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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35 Quotes by Anatole Broyard
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- There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we…
- If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read…
- Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
- Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find:…
- We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
- People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later…
- Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
- The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
- I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of…
- The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
- A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or…
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