I think you always feel braver in another language. Anita Brookner More Quotes by Anita Brookner More Quotes From Anita Brookner Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. Anita Brookner women simple thinking Writing has freed me from the despair of living. Anita Brookner despair writing To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. Anita Brookner negotiation moral writing You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode. Anita Brookner dream love mean Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. Anita Brookner wicked moral fiction The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. Anita Brookner reading life book 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. Anita Brookner people jesus thinking I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together. Anita Brookner passion lonely animal It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons. Anita Brookner selfish-reasons selfish reason I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi. Anita Brookner husband important self I am 46, and have been for some time past. Anita Brookner times-past age past One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately. Anita Brookner growing-up passion children The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality. Anita Brookner fulfilled self reality Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. Anita Brookner innocence writing attention No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. Anita Brookner blame truth doe Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns. Anita Brookner crowns play life Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded. Anita Brookner satire strong belief A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. Anita Brookner liars men lying 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. Anita Brookner favors god winning You can never betray the people who are dead. Anita Brookner sunbeams betrayal people
