Anita Brookner Quotes

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• Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
• A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
• No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
• Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
• 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…
• 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…
• Great writers are the saints for the godless.
• 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…
• Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
• The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
• What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
• You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
• You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier…
• You can never betray the people who are dead.
• 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…
• Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
• Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
• 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…
• Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

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