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Anatole Broyard Quotes

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Anatole Broyard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1920 - October 11, 1990

Topics

Life Self Feel Debate I Can Human

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Live Freedom Yourself Revolution You

Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Home Unique Situation Now Athlete

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

John Hurt

Me Think You Important Nothing Sure

I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.

Amber Riley

Friend Myself Best Bullying School

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

Siri Hustvedt

Imagination Child Brother Young Boy

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Depression Moving Connection Cancer

'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

Rob Sheffield

Best Queen Fighting Perfect Rock

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

Robin McKinley

Children Feel Want Way Never Made

Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.

Martina Hingis

Home Best Image Well Maybe

I dig those kinds of roles where I have to dig down and find some internal motivation. I like tough roles.

Michael Rooker

Tough Motivation Find Down Where

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

Mitch Albom

Wait Book You Back Chapter Run

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

Joyce Giraud

Smile Truth Lie People Me Cry