Anita Brookner Quotes

• The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

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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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• Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

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• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

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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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• 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.

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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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• It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

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• In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

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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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• Great writers are the saints for the godless.

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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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• 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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• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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• A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

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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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Anita Brookner (36)

Birth:	16th July, 1928
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Anita Brookner was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London. She is a Booker award-winning novelist and art historian. In 1949 she received a BA in History from King's College London, and in 1953 a doctorate in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Brookner has not married, but took care of her parents as they aged. In 1967 she became the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge University. Brookner published her first novel, A Start In Life in 1981, at the age of 53. Since then she has published a novel approximately every year.  Brookner's fourth book, Hotel du Lac was awarded the Booker Prize.

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