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About the Anatole Broyard
Anatole Paul Broyardwas an American writer, literary critic, and editor who wrote for The New York Times. In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays, and two books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works, Intoxicated by My Illnessand Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993), were published after his death.
Several years after his death, Broyard became the center of controversy when it was revealed that he had “passed” as white despite being a Louisiana Creole of mixed-race ancestry.
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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 the possibility of misunderstanding.
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
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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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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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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 to leave.
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader’s teeth.
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
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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 debate with one’s self.
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
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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 reading so valuable.
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People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other’s work.
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