Best Quotes by Anita Brookner (Top 10)
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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More Anita Brookner Quotes
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In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten."
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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