Anatole Broyard: There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

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Anatole Broyard

Anatole Broyard (July 16, 1920 - October 11, 1990) was an American literary critic for The New York Times. He was admired as a writer of great wit and elegance. In addition to his reviews and columns, he published several books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works Intoxicated by My Illness and Kafka Was the Rage, A Greenwich Village Memoir were published after his death

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Donald Gutiérrez
Sad thing to say about children..but worse said about the fathers if you can call them so. Resposability is inheritant to fatherhood and today...somewhat gone.
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