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Great writers are the saints for the godless.

~Anita Brookner

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

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Around Course Every Every Time Hare Life Look Real Real Life Time Wins You

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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

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Topics: Discover Existed Knew Know Learn Never Start Then Till Truths Will Writing You

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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Any Circumstances Energy Feel Free Hope Moments Rely See Things Through You

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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.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Become Begins Decided Decisions Entirely Healthier How How Much Idea Look Much No Idea Once Promising Selfish World You Your Yourself

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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Always Around Ball Ball Game Business Exciting Future Game Got Life New Rid Series Simply Sort Tends Things Trails Unfinished Ventures Whole

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I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

~Anita Brookner

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I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

~Anita Brookner

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I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Austen Got Jane Jane Austen Never Very Well

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I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

~Anita Brookner

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Historian

Born: July 16th, 1938

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