Anita Brookner - Life Quotes

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

Anita Brookner

And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she herself were a kind of facsimile, pleasant but inauthentic. Before she got too old she must wrest some part of her life for herself, or she would fade, vanish, before anyone noticed her disappearance

Anita Brookner

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

Anita Brookner

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.

Anita Brookner