History Quote by Anatole Broyard Download Open image “We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.” — Anatole Broyard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Irony Tourists War Winning
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
