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Anita Brookner Inspirational Quotes (47)

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Death is only a small interruption.
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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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The evening passes somehow I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
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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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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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