Anita Brookner

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#anything #bad #being #blame #else

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

— Anita Brookner

#literature #ruined #life

And without understanding, could each properly love the other? ↗

— Anita Brookner

#understanding #love

[...] death is only a small interruption. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#death

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76 ↗

— Anita Brookner

#reading #family

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

— Anita Brookner

#being #god #hero #own #religion

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

— Anita Brookner

#blame #does #should #telling #telling the truth

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#equivalent #friendship #love #strategy #without

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#commerce #great #just #lessons #life

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. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#complete #creature #get #her #manipulative