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Anatole Broyard

Anatole Paul Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) was an American writer, literary critic, and editor from New Orleans who wrote for The New York Times. In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays, and two books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works, Intoxicated by My Illness (1992) and Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993), were published after his death. He had moved to Brooklyn, New York, with his family as a youth.

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I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

Barchestertowers, Character, Hero, Read, Table, Three

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.

Hygiene, Lives, Looking, Love, Waiting, Writers

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Chic, Convent, Unloved, Women

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Aphorism, Bad, Novels, Sticks, Teeth

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Ancestral, Bookcase, Bookcases, Contents, History, Portraits

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Book, Daughter, Father, Lending, Way, Wedlock

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.

Book, Gristle, Haunt, Importune, Parent, Teeth

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.

Sex, Writing, Missing, Said, Generality, Miss

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.

Art, Offensive, People, Play, Real, Seeing

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Anxiety, Fiction, Tone, Deglamorized, Tones

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.

Book, Good, Should, Three, Times

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.

Book, Good, River, Sight, Sunset, Sunsets

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Book, Lent, Miss, Missing, Moments

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

Book, Night, Reading, Reads, Stands

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

Anymore, Notice, Ones, Paranoids, Things

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Divorce, Tragedy, World

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

Aristocracy, Blame, Everything, Government, Might

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Cities, City, Poem, Rome, Service

We don't simply read books. We become them.

Book, Simply, Books, Become, Read

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Advice, Being Sad, Friends, Friendship, Whole, World

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