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Anita Brookner quotes

English Historian July 16, 1938

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Anita Brookner quote: "Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without..."
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner quote: "The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning,..."
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. 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
Anita Brookner quote: "Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no..."
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner quote: "And without understanding, could each properly love the other?"
And without understanding, could each properly love the other? Anita Brookner
But it was a significant exercise, for it meant that I considered myself worthy, as I had never done before. That change in my consciousness was so bewildering that I looked back on my previous life with a sort of amazed pity. That narrowness, those scruples, that prolonged childhood... I even, and this is a great test, began to consider journeys I might make, for my own pleasure, without him. I had never been to Greece and I thought I might go now, some time soon. And I knew that if I went I... 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
Anita Brookner quote: "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce..."
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner quote: "In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time...."
In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you. 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
Anita Brookner quote: "Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long."
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner quote: "Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by..."
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature Anita Brookner
The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread. Anita Brookner
[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one’s embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one’s home. Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner quote: "All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the..."
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. Anita Brookner

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