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| The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favour of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| 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 | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
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| 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 | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| 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 | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| 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 | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| 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 | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Great writers are the saints for the godless. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
