Quotes by Anita Brookner

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided...

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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a...

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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by...

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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art...

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

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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you...

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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may...

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

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

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in...

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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always...

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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be...

#Anita Brookner