Anita Brookner
  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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