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Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
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More quotes by Anita Brookner
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
Anita Brookner
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
Anita Brookner
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
Anita Brookner
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Anita Brookner
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
Anita Brookner
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
Anita Brookner
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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.
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
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.
Anita Brookner
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.
Anita Brookner
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner
One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
Anita Brookner
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
Anita Brookner
