Anita Brookner

(299 votes)   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 engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner
1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian

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(269 votes)   Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner
1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian

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(74 votes)   Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

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(72 votes)   Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

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(70 votes)   Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

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(68 votes)   Great writers are the saints for the godless.

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(68 votes)   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.

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(68 votes)   You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

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(67 votes)   Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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(66 votes)   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 here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

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(65 votes)   The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

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(65 votes)   Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

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(62 votes)   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.

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(49 votes)   A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

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(37 votes)   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.

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