Author: Anita Brookner

Quotes

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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

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

- Anita Brookner

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

- Anita Brookner

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