In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh;… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“But it was a significant exercise, for it meant that I considered myself worthy, as I had never done before. That change… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. — Anita Brookner Copy Share
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
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… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. — Anita Brookner Copy Share
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I knew that… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
“We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. — Anita Brookner Copy Share
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
