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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Accountability Equivalent Friendship Love Strategy Without

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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

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Topics: Contention Market No Time Read Time Tortoise Writing

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

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In real life, 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

Topics: Any Around Busy Case Contention Every Every Time Game Hare Life Look Market No Time Read Real Real Life Time Too Tortoise Who Winning Wins Writing You

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

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Topics: Ever Freedom Sometimes Time Youth

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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

Topics: Books Commerce Great Just Lessons Life Misleading Never Rarely Simple Taught

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

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Topics: Because Happens Love Love Is Most People Pilgrimage Rare Real Real Love Strategy Very

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

~Anita Brookner

Topics: After Become Beginning Essence Impossibility Love Love Is May Romantic Romantic Love Rule Sadness Which Wonderful

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I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: After Around Aunts Brought Cousins Everybody Family Grandmother Jews Like Lived Look Parents Polish Thought Uncles Up Were

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

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Care End Life Live Long Men More Old Old Men Should Than Well

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Historian

Born: July 16th, 1938

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