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Anita Brookner CBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English award-winning novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.

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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

Selfish, Reason, Selfish Reasons, Reasons, Purely

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.

Caricature, Dream, Kind, Love, Mean

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Truth, Doe, Blame, Telling, Attach

Death is only a small interruption.

Interruptions, Interruption, Death, Small

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

Grey, Light, Season, Sun

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.

Betray, Jesus, People, Public, Thinking

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

Life, Love, Rare, Real, Relationship, Strategists

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

Beginning, Essence, Happiness, Love, Romantic, Sadness

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Women, Home, Pity, Conventional, Mould

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.

Energy, Hope, Moments, Things

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.

Crown, Crowns, Damascus, Life, Play, Thorns

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

Drs, Life, Literature, Ruined

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

God, Hero, Philosophical, Religion, Society, Support

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

God, Godless, Saint, Saints, Writers, Writing

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Like, Simple, Thinking, Thought, Women

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Charm, Liar, Liars, Lying, Men, Obvious

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.

Case, Hares, Market, Real, Winning, Writing

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Belief, Beliefs, Dependent, Satire, Strong

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

Attention, Innocence, Passes, State, Writing

I think you always feel braver in another language.

Thinking, Language, Feels, Braver, Think

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