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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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More quotes by Anita Brookner
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
Anita Brookner
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
Anita Brookner
And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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.
Anita Brookner
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.
Anita Brookner
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.
Anita Brookner
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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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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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
Anita Brookner
Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Anita Brookner
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
Anita Brookner
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner
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.
Anita Brookner
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
Death is only a small interruption.
Anita Brookner
The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead.
Anita Brookner
