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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."

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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."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me."

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

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"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."
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"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."
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"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."
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"Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."
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"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."
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