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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
- Anita Brookner
#Care
#Life
#Live
#Long
#Men
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.
- Anita Brookner
#Education
#Life
#Loved
#My Life
#Teacher
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
- Anita Brookner
#Commerce
#Great
#Life
#Never
#Simple
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 these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
- Anita Brookner
#Circumstances
#Energy
#Feel
#Free
#Hope
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
- Anita Brookner
#Blame
#Should
#Telling The Truth
#Truth
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
- Anita Brookner
#Men
#Rich
#She
#Simple
#Women
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
- Anita Brookner
#Love Is
#Love
#People
#Real
#Strategy
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
- Anita Brookner
#Attention
#Innocence
#Lot
#Simply
#Your
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
- Anita Brookner
#God
#Hero
#Religion
#Society
#Support
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.
- Anita Brookner
#Family
#Like
#Look
#Parents
#Up
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
- Anita Brookner
#Godless
#Great
#Saints
#Writers
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 bold.
- Anita Brookner
#Bold
#Fortune
#Gift
#Good
#Win
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
- Anita Brookner
#Market
#No Time
#Time
#Tortoise
#Writing
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
- Anita Brookner
#Friendship
#Love
#Strategy
#Without
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 system she is in.
- Anita Brookner
#Own
#People
#Way
#Whatever
#Woman
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
#Busy
#Game
#Life
#Look
#Time
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
- Anita Brookner
#Charm
#Liar
#Man
#Must
#Obvious
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
- Anita Brookner
#Freedom
#Sometimes
#Teen
#Time
#Youth
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
- Anita Brookner
#Beginning
#Love Is
#Love
#May
#Romantic
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