"Two people making love, she once said, are……" — Anatole Broyard
"Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other."
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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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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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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 Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon…
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad…
— William Kitchiner
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be…
— Rajneesh
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My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave.…
— William Shakespeare
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and…
— Robert Burns
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
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Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.
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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky.…
— Mark Twain
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Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you…
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The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching.…
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