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    Anatole Broyard

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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. ↗


    — Anatole Broyard

    #everything #expect #expected #nothing #obedience

    Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. ↗


    — Anatole Broyard

    #intimacy #resuscitation #sex #love

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


    — Anatole Broyard

    #novels #reader #stick #teeth

    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

    #american literature #back #forever #leave #literature

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


    — Anatole Broyard

    #inalienable #logical #picturesque #poetry #sentences

    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

    #disturbed #greater #having #misunderstanding #misunderstood

    Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. ↗


    — Anatole Broyard

    #into #poem #pressed #rome #service

    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. ↗


    — Anatole Broyard

    #book #i #like #makes #more

    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. ↗


    — Anatole Broyard

    #any #art #art form #bad #form

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


    — Anatole Broyard

    #history #irony #tourists #wars #win






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    wrote: "In his terms he did not want to write about black love black passion black suffering black joy; he wanted to write about love and passion and suffering and joy. On the other hand Margaret Harrell has written that Anatole Broyard and other acquaintances were casually told that he was a writer and black before meeting him and not in the sense of having to keep it secret. Because of his artistic ambition in some circumstances he never acknowledged that he was part black.

    In addition to his many reviews and columns he publiAnatole Broyardd short stories essays and two books during his lifetime. A Louisiana Creole of mixed race he was criticized by some blacks for "passing" as white as an adult and failing to acknowledge his African-American ancestry.

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