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Anita Brookner quotes about life

English Historian July 16, 1938

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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

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