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.
タグ: looking, looking-back, wait, love

"Anatole Broyard"の他の名言

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
タグ: being, friends, stop, world
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
タグ: wrapped, logical, words, poetry
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.
タグ: end, more, start, beginning
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.
タグ: job, people, you, work
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
タグ: punishment, misunderstanding, peace
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