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Anatole Broyard Quotes

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Anatole Broyard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Friends Stop Being Whole Some

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

Human Dirt Whatever Human Being Like

My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.

Future Day Peace Effort People Care

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Community Energy Beyond Others Gone

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Technology Myself My Own Own Things

I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!

Steve Valentine

Passion Kind Legends Kid Hold Big

My parents didn't feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.

Day Parents American Choose Choice

You don't watch television shows to see people having an easy day. You watch to see them make some of the hardest decisions they have to make. It's enjoyable to see them dealing with those important parts of their lives.

Day People Decisions You Television

I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.

People Bridge Think Week Bad Play

People don't go to bars they think are uncool.

People Think Go Bars

There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capitalist.' But I'd said that I wanted a job that involved a lot of negotiation, a lot of yelling at people on the phone, and for it to be high-risk, high-reward.

Job People Negotiation Phone Living

I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers.

Arnaud Desplechin

Time Experience Little Girls Loved

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Thomas Bulfinch

Knowledge Society Possessions Claim

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