Quotes by 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.”

“Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.”

“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”

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