Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.


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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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 th...
ANATOLE BROYARD
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at leas...
ANATOLE BROYARD
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momen...
ANATOLE BROYARD
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
ANATOLE BROYARD
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present,...
ANATOLE BROYARD
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
ANATOLE BROYARD
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
ANATOLE BROYARD
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with lov...
ANATOLE BROYARD
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. ...
ANATOLE BROYARD
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, ...
ANATOLE BROYARD
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form...
ANATOLE BROYARD
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
ANATOLE BROYARD
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
ANATOLE BROYARD
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
ANATOLE BROYARD
We are very under-covered for the size audience we have. The good news for us is we're looking at th...
BRIAN FRANCE
I can understand that. He is the only one with five teams, so it's very understandable he's disappoi...
BRIAN FRANCE
We are going to look at the Chase when the season clears, but my sense of it is that it isn't going ...
BRIAN FRANCE
The Busch Series is quietly doing NBA or regular season baseball numbers. It's wearing out other spo...
BRIAN FRANCE
We don't want to penalize him unnecessarily. He started out with five teams in a system that allowed...
BRIAN FRANCE
We knew that when we did all the moves in the last three years, another event in Phoenix in the cale...
BRIAN FRANCE
I think they're going to have a very big crowd. We're gaining a lot of momentum. It's going to take ...
BRIAN FRANCE
They're going to have a sushi bar and make this place feel a little bit more like where it is: South...
BRIAN FRANCE
I congratulate Chris Powell and LVMS for launching this improvement project. The new garage area wil...
BRIAN FRANCE
We'd always like it to be closer, but it really is close enough for us. The perfect scenario would b...
BRIAN FRANCE
We are not happy that he has had a progression of pushing the envelope. We expect everybody to be ag...
BRIAN FRANCE
It has been a big distraction. We haven't announced the final penalty for Chad yet. We don't expect ...
BRIAN FRANCE
This is the maximum amount of power we can currently test. We suspect the coil is even more powerful...
DANIELLE FRANCE
I think there's a tremendous ripple effect. For a species like the grizzly, it's an indicator specie...
TOM FRANCE
As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys diff...
TODD FRANCE
It's not a flag I look at (as) anything favorable.
BRIAN FRANCE
We're getting down to the wire. Looks to be in the next four to six weeks or sooner there will be so...
BRIAN FRANCE