Inspirational Quotes by Anatole Broyard (American Literary Critic)

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

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
—Anatole Broyard
Topics: Divorce

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

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

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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