English - Historian | July 16, 1938 -
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner
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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.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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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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I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.
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I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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