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Anita Brookner - From the Books category:
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. (Anita Brookner)
Anita Brookner - From the Books category:
I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. (Anita Brookner)
Anita Brookner - From the Discovery category:
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. (Anita Brookner)
Anita Brookner - From the Gender category:
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. (Anita Brookner)
Anita Brookner - From the Greatness category:
Great writers are the saints for the godless. (Anita Brookner)
Anita Brookner - From the Life category:
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)
Anita Brookner - From the Strategy category:
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. (Anita Brookner)
Anita Brookner - From the Truth category:
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. (Anita Brookner)
Anita Brookner - From the Winning category:
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)
Anita Brookner - From the Writing category:
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. (Anita Brookner)
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