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1. "Old times, sad times. I feel better about them now than I did then." ~ Anita Brookner
2. "[...] no man is free of his own history." ~ Anita Brookner
3. "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything." ~ Anita Brookner
4. "A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar." ~ Anita Brookner
5. "No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does." ~ Anita Brookner
6. "Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy." ~ Anita Brookner
7. "Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted." ~ Anita Brookner
8. "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." ~ Anita Brookner
9. "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
10. "Great writers are the saints for the godless." ~ Anita Brookner
11. "The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule." ~ Anita Brookner
12. "Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of." ~ Anita Brookner
13. "Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography." ~ Anita Brookner
14. "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society." ~ Anita Brookner
15. "Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists." ~ Anita Brookner
16. "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has." ~ Anita Brookner
17. "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." ~ Anita Brookner
18. "In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you." ~ Anita Brookner
19. "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just." ~ Anita Brookner
20. "You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish." ~ Anita Brookner
21. "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." ~ Anita Brookner
22. "Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long." ~ Anita Brookner
23. "As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel." ~ Anita Brookner
24. "My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all, reading, or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. Every evening.''You are a romantic, Edith,' repeated Mr Neville, with a smile.'It is you who are wrong,' she replied. 'I have been listening to that particular accusation for most of my life. I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together." ~ Anita Brookner
25. "Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed." ~ Anita Brookner
26. "It was then that I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky. It is an attempt to reach others and to make them love you. It is your instinctive protest, when you find you have no voice at the world's tribunals, and that no one will speak for you. I would give my entire output of words, past, present and to come, in exchange for easier access to the world, for permission to state "I hurt" or " I hate" or " I want". Or indeed, "Look at me". And I do not go back on this. For once a thing is known it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. And writing is the enemy of forgetfulness, or thoughtlessness. For the writer there is no oblivion. Only endless memory." ~ Anita Brookner
27. "For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten." ~ Anita Brookner
28. "[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one's embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one's home." ~ Anita Brookner
29. "[…] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread." ~ Anita Brookner
30. "The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread." ~ Anita Brookner
31. "Siz bir romantiksiniz, Edith," diyerek sözünü yineledi Mr.Neville gülümseyerek. "Yanilan sizsiniz," diye yanitladi Edith. "Ömrüm boyunca bu suçlamayi dinledim durdum.Romantik degilim ben.Ben, evcil bir hayvanim. Ahlayip ohlayip taskin tutku gösterilerinin, büyük asklarin özlemini çekmiyorum, ask için dünyayi hepten gözden çikarmiyorum. Bütün bunlari biliyorum ve bunun insani yapayalniz biraktigini da biliyorum. Hayir, benim can attigim sey rutin yasamin yalinligi. Güzel bir havada kol kola bir aksam yürüyüsü.Bir iskambil oyunu. Gevezelik etmek. Bir yemegi birlikte hazirlamak" ~ Anita Brookner
32. "But it was a significant exercise, for it meant that I considered myself worthy, as I had never done before. That change in my consciousness was so bewildering that I looked back on my previous life with a sort of amazed pity. That narrowness, those scruples, that prolonged childhood... I even, and this is a great test, began to consider journeys I might make, for my own pleasure, without him. I had never been to Greece and I thought I might go now, some time soon. And I knew that if I went I should enjoy it, as I had never enjoyed a journey before. Because I should have James to come back to. By the very fact of his existence, he had given the validity to my entire future." ~ Anita Brookner
33. "I could not, somehow, make contact with any familiar emotion. As I lingered in front of a lighted window, apparently beguiled by a pair of burgundy leather shoes, I could only identify a feeling of exclusion. I felt as if the laws of the universe no longer applied to me, since I was outside the normal frames of reference. A biological nonentity, to be phased out. And somewhere, intruding helplessly and to no avail into my consciousness, the anger of the underdog, plotting bloody revolution, plotting revenge." ~ Anita Brookner
34. "I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company." ~ Anita Brookner
35. "[...] death is only a small interruption." ~ Anita Brookner
36. "That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself." ~ Anita Brookner
37. "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
38. "And without understanding, could each properly love the other?" ~ Anita Brookner
39. "Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature" ~ Anita Brookner
40. "We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea would still be there at the end. She was nearly ready." ~ Anita Brookner
41. "Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again." ~ Anita Brookner
42. "Hartmann had the ideas and Fibich did the worrying: it suited them both perfectly." ~ Anita Brookner
43. "Kavgalar tatliya baglanabilir, ama baskalarini mahcup düsürenler asla tümüyle unutulamaz." ~ Anita Brookner
44. "Hotel Du LacEdith, once again anonymous, and accepting her anonymity, made an appropriately inconspicuous exit. And, sitting in the deserted salon, the first to arrive from the dining room, she felt her precarious dignity hard-pressed and about to succumb in the light of her earlier sadness. The pianist, sitting down to play, gave her a brief nod. She nodded back, and thought how limited her means of expression had become: nodding to the pianist or to Mme de Bonneuil, listening to Mrs Pusey, using a disguised voice in the novel she was writing and, with all of this, waiting for a voice that remained silent, hearing very little that meant anything to her at all. The dread implications of this condition made her blink her eyes and vow to be brave, to do better, not to give way. But it was not easy." ~ Anita Brookner
45. "Biliyor musunuz," dedi Edith, on dakika süren sessiz inisten sonra, "Su gülümsemenizi birazcik sevimsiz buluyorum." Mr. Neville'in gülümsemesi yüzüne daha da yayildi. "Beni daha iyi tanidiginizda," dedi, "Gülümseyisimin gerçekte ne kadar sevimsiz oldugunu anlayacaksiniz." ~ Anita Brookner

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