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Anatole Broyard Quotes

1920–1990 United States

Anatole Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) was an American literary critic for the New York Times. He is notable for denying his African ancestry by passing as white.

United States
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Also known as: Broyard, Anatole

Random Anatole Broyard quote

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An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

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

A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anatole Broyard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.