Top 60 Anita Brookner Quotes (2024 Update)
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Anita Brookner Quote: “I think you always feel braver in another language.”

51. “I think you always feel braver in another language.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “Love imposes obligations and these are constant. An intermittent lover is no use to a person of dignity and courage.”

52. “Love imposes obligations and these are constant. An intermittent lover is no use to a person of dignity and courage.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off.”

53. “People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “The difficulty, as I saw it, was that she was trying to manage a public self whereas she was by nature a miniaturist who excelled at drawing into her field of activity nuances, intimations, unspoken thought, the most tenuous of personal statements. She was better at the glancing criticism than at spontaneous magnanimity.”

54. “The difficulty, as I saw it, was that she was trying to manage a public self whereas she was by nature a miniaturist who excelled at drawing into her field of activity nuances, intimations, unspoken thought, the most tenuous of personal statements. She was better at the glancing criticism than at spontaneous magnanimity.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “Secretly she envied those who went out and about, while she remained in the grip of her sentences.”

55. “Secretly she envied those who went out and about, while she remained in the grip of her sentences.”

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Anita Brookner Quote: “Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Axiomatically, hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. The propaganda goes all the other way, but only because it is the tortoise who is in need of consolation. Like the meek who are going to inherit the earth.”

56. “Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Axiomatically, hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. The propaganda goes all the other way, but only because it is the tortoise who is in need of consolation. Like the meek who are going to inherit the earth.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “I have been too harsh on women, she thought, because I understand them better than I understand men. I know their watchfulness, their patience, their need to advertise themselves as successful. Their need never to admit to a failure. I know all that because I am one of them.”

57. “I have been too harsh on women, she thought, because I understand them better than I understand men. I know their watchfulness, their patience, their need to advertise themselves as successful. Their need never to admit to a failure. I know all that because I am one of them.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “And my mother’s afternoon escapes from the house that she could not quite consider her own were an indication that loneliness can be felt even in the most ideal of circumstances.”

58. “And my mother’s afternoon escapes from the house that she could not quite consider her own were an indication that loneliness can be felt even in the most ideal of circumstances.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “It is not true that Satan makes work for idle hands to do; that is just what he doesn’t. Satan should be at hand with all manner of glittering distractions, false but irresistible promises, inducements to reprehensible behaviour. Instead of which one is simply offered a choice between overwork and half-hearted idleness.”

59. “It is not true that Satan makes work for idle hands to do; that is just what he doesn’t. Satan should be at hand with all manner of glittering distractions, false but irresistible promises, inducements to reprehensible behaviour. Instead of which one is simply offered a choice between overwork and half-hearted idleness.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “The distractions of the past few days had merged into one major distraction and into one unanswerable question: how to live now? I needed no friend to whisper insidiously that life would be simpler, for I already knew that. Life would be simpler, but it would not be better. The world would be a lonelier place, and no amount of rationalization could alter this.”

60. “The distractions of the past few days had merged into one major distraction and into one unanswerable question: how to live now? I needed no friend to whisper insidiously that life would be simpler, for I already knew that. Life would be simpler, but it would not be better. The world would be a lonelier place, and no amount of rationalization could alter this.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “This was somehow a day on which concentration would not be possible, a day on which words must give way to images.”

61. “This was somehow a day on which concentration would not be possible, a day on which words must give way to images.”

— Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner Quote: “I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky. It is an attempt to reach others and to make them love you.”

62. “I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky. It is an attempt to reach others and to make them love you.”

— Anita Brookner

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