Anita Brookner CBE (born 16 July 1928) is an English language novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.
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“No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere—it is an art form in itself.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“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 (b. 1938)