Anita Brookner Quotes

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. - Anita Brookner

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. - Anita Brookner

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. - Anita Brookner

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. - 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

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. - Anita Brookner

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. - Anita Brookner

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you. - 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

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi. - Anita Brookner

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