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Anita Brookner quotes about time

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: "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
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: "It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise..."
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner quote: "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. Anita Brookner

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