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You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
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
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
— Sanjay Kumar
Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
— Anatole Broyard
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
Nothing's routine when the doctor has to slip that mask over your face and tell you nighty-night.
— Robert Dugoni
Of all the regrets I've had in life, and there are plenty, having loved too much will never be one of them.
— Thurman P. Banks Jr.
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.
— 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
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
— 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
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
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.
— 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
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
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
— Anatole Broyard
I like it where I stand. This is fun.
— Esther Hicks
The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
— Anatole Broyard
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
I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
— Anatole Broyard