Quotes About Anatole

The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.

A religião prestou ao amor um grande serviço, fazendo dele um pecado.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

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.

And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.