Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#freedom #misspent #sometimes #time #youth

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. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #betray #dead #go #here

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#existed #knew #know #learn #never

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

— Anita Brookner

#equivalent #friendship #love #strategy #without

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#because #diverted #innocence #lot #novels

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#exemplary #liar #man #must #obvious

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