Anita Brookner Quotes
Most popular Anita Brookner Quotes
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
In real life, of course, 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.
