Anatole Broyard Quotes

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

(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)

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

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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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