Author: Anatole Broyard

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

- Anatole Broyard

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.

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

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

- Anatole Broyard

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

- Anatole Broyard

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.

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.

- Anatole Broyard

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.

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.

- Anatole Broyard

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