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One Quotes by Anatole Broyard
- Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality…
- The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable…
- 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 wait…
- The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes…
- 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 stands…
- Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
- 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…
- Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
- The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
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