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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. - Anatole Broyard quote.
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
— Anatole Broyard

Italy

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. - Anatole Broyard quote.
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country.
— Anatole Broyard Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays

Travel

For that is one of the best things about love: the feeling of being wrapped, like a gift, in understanding. - Anatole Broyard quote.
For that is one of the best things about love: the feeling of being wrapped, like a gift, in understanding.
— Anatole Broyard in The New York Times

love

A critical illness is like a great permission, an authorization or absolving. It's all right for a threatened man to be romantic, even crazy, if he feels like it. All your life you think you have to hold back your craziness, but when you're sick you can let it go in all its garish colors. - Anatole Broyard quote.
A critical illness is like a great permission, an authorization or absolving. It's all right for a threatened man to be romantic, even crazy, if he feels like it. All your life you think you have to hold back your craziness, but when you're sick you can let it go in all its garish colors.
— Anatole Broyard Intoxicated By My Illness

illness