Quotes by Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner

British Writer

Lived from: 1928 - 2016

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 16 july 1928 Died: 10 march 2016

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
  • Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
  • 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.
  • Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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  • 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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  • She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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  • 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.
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  • A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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  • Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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  • 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.
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  • Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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  • 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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  • Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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  • 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.
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  • In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
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  • It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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  • No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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  • Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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  • 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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  • Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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  • The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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What are the most famous quotes from Anita Brookner?

The two most famous quotes from Anita Brookner are:

  • "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."
  • "She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

When did Anita Brookner live?

Anita Brookner was born in 1928 and died in the year 2016.