Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner, CBEwas a British 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth16 July 1938
Anita Brookner quotes about
loneliness irritation needs
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.
wicked fiction moral
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
growing-up children passion
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.
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past.
husband self important
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
energy moments circumstances
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.
forgotten known
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
truth doe blame
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
love friendship accountability
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
new-ventures games unfinished-business
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.
women simple thinking
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
women thinking good-woman
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
understanding
And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
selfish ideas decision
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.