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.
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.Anatole Broyard
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.
Anatole Broyard
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.
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