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Anita Brookner Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: July 16, 1938

Topics

Women Men Simple Rich Thought She

I bend and do not break.

Jean de La Fontaine

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

New York City Me Mom Calm Woods

I'm not really a morning person.

Morning Person Morning Person Really

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

Innovation Eyes Isolation Sometimes

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Freedom Follow Hard Inspiration Beat

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

Broken Happy Think End Always Out

I'm a Louis Theroux addict.

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

Children Day Fun Ambition Think

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Management Think Financial End Will

I know things that I need to work on in my life, things that I can be better at.

Life Work Better My Life I Can Know

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

Deborah Eisenberg

Need Spoiled Paper Waste Writer Lot

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

Humor Picture Problem More See Us

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