It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.


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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces
ANATOLE FRANCE
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of p...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the...
ANATOLE FRANCE
A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.
ANATOLE FRANCE
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated ...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to b...
ANATOLE FRANCE
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, a...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They hav...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching ...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the b...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn ...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD