English - Historian | July 16, 1938 -
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
Anita Brookner
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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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.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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