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| Anatole Broyard
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer. 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. People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one. The midnight snack of a life in its 70s. The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or reads for them. There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. 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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