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

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality. — Anita Brookner

Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease, would have to come to her aid, — Anita Brookner

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way. — Anita Brookner

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. — Anita Brookner

Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in. — Anita Brookner

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

[...] no man is free of his own history. — Anita Brookner

Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again. — Anita Brookner

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me. — Anita Brookner

Writing has freed me from the despair of living. — Anita Brookner

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

I am 46, and have been for some time past. — Anita Brookner

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. — Anita Brookner

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. — Anita Brookner

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries. — Anita Brookner

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76 — Anita Brookner

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. — Anita Brookner

Old times, sad times. I feel better about them now than I did then. — Anita Brookner

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. — Anita Brookner

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

[...] death is only a small interruption. — Anita Brookner

Great writers are the saints for the godless. — Anita Brookner

As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel. — Anita Brookner

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. — Anita Brookner

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed. — Anita Brookner

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself. — 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 best to marry for purely selfish reasons. — Anita Brookner

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. — Anita Brookner

Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns. — Anita Brookner

I think you always feel braver in another language. — Anita Brookner

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. — Anita Brookner

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded. — Anita Brookner

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner

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

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me. — Anita Brookner

I think that those few words were my greatest mistake. — Anita Brookner

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

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen. — Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. — Anita Brookner

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

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

I reminded myself of someone, but someone I had not seen for a long time. — Anita Brookner

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing. — Anita Brookner

Hartmann had the ideas and Fibich did the worrying: it suited them both perfectly. — Anita Brookner

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. — Anita Brookner

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. — Anita Brookner

And without understanding, could each properly love the other? — Anita Brookner

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. — Anita Brookner