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There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.
— Allen Ginsberg
Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
— Anatole Broyard
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
— Anatole Broyard
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
— Anatole Broyard
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
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
— Anatole Broyard
Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
— Anatole Broyard
I just don't have words to express how proud I am of this race team.
— Jimmie Johnson
Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.
— Anatole Broyard
When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.
— Anatole Broyard
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
— Anatole Broyard
You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.
— Timothy Snyder
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.
— Anatole Broyard
I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.
— Monica Denise Brown
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
— Anatole Broyard
Chic is a convent for unloved women.
— Anatole Broyard
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.
— Anatole Broyard
I'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.
— Anatole Broyard
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.
— Anatole Broyard
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
— 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.
— Anatole Broyard
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
— Anatole Broyard
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.
— Anatole Broyard
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
— Anatole Broyard
The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
— Anatole Broyard
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.
— Simon Bolivar
A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.
— Anatole Broyard
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
— Anatole Broyard
