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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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