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«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.»
Author: Anatole Broyard | About: Books | Keywords: book, deserves, Great Books, three times
«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.»
Author: Anatole Broyard | About: Reading | Keywords: slowly, spontaneous, valuable
«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.»
«His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.»
«The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.»
Author: Anatole Broyard | About: Divorce | Keywords: millionth
«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.»
«She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.»
«Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.»
«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.»
Author: Anatole Broyard | Keywords: expected, obedience, opposed
«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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