Author: Anita Brookner

Quotes

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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