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Anatole Broyard
American Critic
Born: Jul 16, 1920
Died: Oct 11, 1990
Bad Being Each Friends Greater People
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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. Anatole Broyard
Life Debate Self Tension Feel Between Makes Yes Human Cannot Us Human Life Many
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
Time Obedience Nothing Our Everything Opposed Expect Expected Children Them Present
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. Anatole Broyard
World Other Frank Some Loses Friends Stop Being Useful Radiance Whole Each
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. Anatole Broyard
Service Pressed City Poem Rome
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. Anatole Broyard
Beginning Our Appropriate Our Lives Find More Only Implications Mostly Were End Than Human Middle Being Stories Being Human Epic Momentous Lives Start
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. Anatole Broyard
Teeth Bad Reader Stick Aphorism Novels
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
Art People Stage Other Bad Seeing About Something More Makes Real Art Form Offensive Than Real People Any Form Personally Play
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
Book Valuable Reading Back One Of The Things Slowly More Like Spontaneous Read Talking Makes Things
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. Anatole Broyard
War History Win Tourists Irony Wars

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