"There was a time when we expected nothing……" — 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."
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35 Quotes by Anatole Broyard
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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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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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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
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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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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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