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Anatole Broyard [1920-1990] American

Rank: 106
Critic, Writer

Anatole Paul Broyard was an American writer, literary critic and editor born in 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.

Peace, Poetry, War

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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.		101
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.		102
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.		103
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.	Peace	104
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.		105
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.	War	106
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.		107
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.	Poetry	108
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.		109
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.		110
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.		111
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.		112
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.		113

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