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
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
—Anatole Broyard
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
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
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
—Anatole Broyard
Topics: Divorce
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Bayard Taylor American Poet
- George Edward Woodberry American Literary Critic
- Harold Bloom American Literary Critic, Author
- Van Wyck Brooks American Critic
- Diana Trilling American Literary Critic
- John Churton Collins English Literary Critic
- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Scottish Judge, Critic
- F. L. Lucas English Literary Critic
- Alexander Woollcott American Critic
- Louis Kronenberger American Literary Critic
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