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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1015/">Quotes by <em>Brookner, Anita</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) is an English novelist and art historian born in London. Educated at James Allen's Girls' School then King's College London, in 1967 she became the first woman to hold the Slade professorship at Cambridge University. Since 1977, she has been associated with the Courtauld Institute of Art. However, since winning the Booker Prize in 1984 for Hotel du Lac, she has become better known as a novelist, publishing on the average a novel a year. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

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"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."

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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

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"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."

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"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself."

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"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."

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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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"A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification."

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

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