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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
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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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
I am 46, and have been for some time past.
Anita Brookner
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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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
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.
Anita Brookner
Death is only a small interruption.
Anita Brookner
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
Anita Brookner
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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
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
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
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
Anita Brookner
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.
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.
Anita Brookner
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
Anita Brookner
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.
Anita Brookner
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
Anita Brookner
