Anatole Paul Broyard (1920–90) 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. His autobiographical works, Intoxicated by My Illness and Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, were published after his death. He had moved to Brooklyn, New York with his family as a youth.
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.
—Anatole Broyard
Topics: Book
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives.
—Anatole Broyard
Topics: Letters
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
—Anatole Broyard
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
—Anatole Broyard
Topics: Divorce
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
Topics: Obedience
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