Best quotes by Anita Brookner on Life

Checkout quotes by Anita Brookner on Life

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

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• ‟ Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

  - Anita Brookner