Anita Brookner quote: "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."

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most pe...
ANITA BROOKNER

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never ta...
ANITA BROOKNER

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biograp...
ANITA BROOKNER

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise ...
ANITA BROOKNER

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
ANITA BROOKNER

Life...is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball ga...
ANITA BROOKNER

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
ANITA BROOKNER

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your a...
ANITA BROOKNER

Great writers are the saints for the godless.
ANITA BROOKNER

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
ANITA BROOKNER

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being goo...
ANITA BROOKNER

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may ...
ANITA BROOKNER

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just ...
ANITA BROOKNER

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my content...
ANITA BROOKNER

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and...
ANITA BROOKNER

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

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
ANITA BROOKNER

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

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never...
ANITA BROOKNER

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer...
ANITA BROOKNER

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

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi
ANITA BROOKNER

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but ...
ANITA BROOKNER

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball g...
ANITA BROOKNER

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yo...
ANITA BROOKNER

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your att...
ANITA BROOKNER

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take...
ANITA BROOKNER

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people t...
ANITA BROOKNER

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never...
ANITA BROOKNER

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being...
ANITA BROOKNER

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never se...
ANITA BROOKNER

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

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
ANITA BROOKNER

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it ...
ANITA BROOKNER

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
ANITA BROOKNER

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but ...
ANITA BROOKNER

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for you...
ANITA BROOKNER

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
ANITA BROOKNER

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew e...
ANITA BROOKNER

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
ANITA BROOKNER

I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to d...
ANITA BROOKNER

Hartmann had the ideas and Fibich did the worrying: it suited them both perfectly.
ANITA BROOKNER

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,...
ANITA BROOKNER

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't an...
ANITA BROOKNER

[…] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abys...
ANITA BROOKNER

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, wait...
ANITA BROOKNER

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
ANITA MERINA

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared f...
ANITA RODDICK

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
ANITA ELBERSE

Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers mak...
ANITA ELBERSE

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do ...
ANITA RODDICK

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
ANITA RODDICK

Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle
ANITA RODDICK

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
ANITA RODDICK

Over the past decade, ... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have...
ANITA RODDICK

To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality.
ANITA RODDICK

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
ANITA RODDICK

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not ...
ANITA RODDICK

Gentlemen prefer blondes.
ANITA LOOS

raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness (paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book...
ANITA DIAMANT

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the com...
ANITA SHREVE

It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession...
ANITA LOOS

Memory is more incredible than ink
ANITA LOOS

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always l...
ANITA LOOS

Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal...
ANITA LOOS

So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.
ANITA LOOS

Gentlemen prefer blondes
ANITA LOOS

I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that...
ANITA LOOS

Memory is more indelible than ink.
ANITA LOOS

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
ANITA DESAI

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it...
ANITA BAKER

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by l...
ANITA DESAI

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make yo...
ANITA LOOS

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
ANITA LOOS

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
ANITA LOOS

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-secon...
ANITA LOOS

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
ANITA DEFRANTZ

Fate keeps on happening.
ANITA LOOS

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
ANITA LOOS

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
ANITA BAKER

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to beco...
ANITA LOOS

There's nothing colder than chemistry.
ANITA LOOS

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of ho...
ANITA LOOS

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made...
ANITA RODDICK

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
ANITA RODDICK

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
ANITA DIAMANT

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also...
ANITA DIAMANT

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever
ANITA LOOS

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible t...
ANITA BORG

I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible...
ANITA SARKEESIAN

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is ...
ANITA BAKER

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food an...
ANITA BAKER

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
ANITA RODDICK

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
ANITA RODDICK

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the...
ANITA HILL

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it ...
ANITA RODDICK

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to ...
ANITA SHREVE

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
ANITA DIAMENT

We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of enti...
ANITA SARKEESIAN

I have really gotten my hands on new material, stuff just really out of the gates. Even if you are g...
ANITA STEWART

We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about draft decis...
ANITA STEEVES

We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about the draft d...
ANITA STEEVES

We'll have to see what happens.
ANITA STEEVES

We're still reviewing the decision.
ANITA STEEVES

We had a lot of structural damage and broken poles, and when you're in a bucket 35 feet in the air a...
ANITA STEEVES

Be smart about your own safety and lock your doors.
ANITA SHELL

(It's) $80 for one pill and if you have a bottle of 20 or 30 then you've got a gold mine.
ANITA SHELL

So a good homework assignment for everybody, take a screwdriver, unscrew your screws to your strike ...
ANITA SHELL

Their target on this home invasion robbery was the medicine that this victim was on.
ANITA SHELL

But what happens in the fourth grade you get individual ways you write - you have a unique way of ma...
ANITA SEAMANS

This individual used a habit of using upper case (letters) where there should have been a lower case...
ANITA SEAMANS

You start out as if you're going to fool them, and the minute your mind strays to anything else, you...
ANITA SEAMANS

When you were in first grade, there were letters above the chalkboard.
ANITA SEAMANS

Fear is present in our lives due to the absence of faith, not knowing our true identity as heirs & t...
ANITA PLESSIS

We give up on our dreams, because we doubt self and struggle with fear of shame and failure, which p...
ANITA PLESSIS

The powerful prayers of the righteous which moves mountains are determined by the power of agreement...
ANITA PLESSIS

If we can't appreciate the little things how do we expect to appreciate the big things? Be thankful ...
ANITA PLESSIS

Taking short cuts are costly and not worth it. Doing it right takes longer, but the result is a soli...
ANITA PLESSIS

What does our way of caring for others look like? Do we check our schedules first or do we get out o...
ANITA PLESSIS

(Greene) wants the best ideas that are going to give opportunity to black businesses and economic in...
ANITA MITCHELL

We haven't moved very far from where we were. But we did try to help a little bit on the money side,...
ANITA MITCHELL

Higgins came to our site independently with no lobbying. They came to the park, they saw the park, t...
ANITA MITCHELL

I think this accomplishes what the governor wanted. I think it accomplishes, financially, for the ta...
ANITA MITCHELL

Obviously it's a big game because of the rivalry and the region title on the line. But as nice as it...
ANITA MCLANE

You don't really want to be No. 1 in the poll. We have a pretty big target on our backs as it is. Th...
ANITA MCLANE

Position by position this could be one of the best team's I've coached. We don't necessarily have on...
ANITA MCLANE

We were so young last year and this year playing with the same group has helped. They are playing re...
ANITA MCLANE

Defensively, you can't pick out one person that has played well because they all are so good.
ANITA MCLANE

If you look at old pictures of China, they are all riding bikes. Now, they all drive cars.
ANITA MANGELS

Costs fluctuate every day, almost every hour. You would have to assume that every other relevant fac...
ANITA MANGELS

The place we are in took at a long time to get to and it will take a long time to get out.
ANITA MANGELS

It's important to understand that even under the best circumstances we have a real supply imbalance ...
ANITA MANGELS

We are constantly in a volatile situation because of the tight worldwide supply-and-demand balance.
ANITA MANGELS

Clearly, there is something the market is responding to. But there is nothing specific that I've hea...
ANITA MANGELS

We haven't had one built here in 29 years. This is simply a supply-and-demand issue.
ANITA MANGELS

The judges knew us from last year. There were high expectations this year. With much of the team new...
ANITA LUNDY

We are looking for mentors and sponsors. It's not a cheap competition. We are not funded by the dist...
ANITA LUNDY

With winning a significant award, it speaks volumes about the team. There's a lot more to accomplish...
ANITA LUNDY

It was three days of non-stop competition. It was a 12- to 16-hour daily competition and it truly is...
ANITA LUNDY

We were able to make it to three schools.
ANITA LUNDY

We've already met for next year.
ANITA LUNDY

Of the district teams, we were a natural mentor. We spent hours on the phone with the different team...
ANITA LUNDY

Districts and state are the golden achievement. We're going for that ultimate goal, and the boys are...
ANITA LEVEKE

I don't think we can be disappointed at all. The boys swam faster this year than they did last year.
ANITA LEVEKE

He's awesome. He's one of the hardest workers on the team and he keeps everybody focused.
ANITA LEVEKE

I thought it was going to be a little tougher than it turned out to be. We told the kids this wasn't...
ANITA LEVEKE

It's been an easy merger because a lot of the kids swim on the Otters, so they all know each other.
ANITA LEVEKE

The past two seasons have been great successes as far as overall improvement in times and getting ki...
ANITA LEVEKE

I see ... the faces of these young people, and I see their hearts and that they really do want chang...
ANITA HILL

I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better...
ANITA HILL

We are very much moved by what we've seen, and many of us are seeking answers and trying to organize...
ANITA HILL

Whether the person you are playing is real or fictional, you try to go to the heart of that person.
ANITA HILL

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I th...
ANITA HILL

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything...
ANITA HILL

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the ...
ANITA HILL

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that
ANITA HILL

I'm not sure even what happened between her and the president, but it's not unheard of for individua...
ANITA HILL

high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
ANITA HILL

It really sounds like somebody she knew. It's just kind of a bizarre thing, but then again, this who...
ANITA GATTIS

She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left...
ANITA GATTIS

I think someone she knew is involved. I think something bad happened.
ANITA GATTIS

We feel like we're really moving in a positive direction right now.
ANITA GATTIS

There is power in the people. If you're not there, your voice will be missed.
ANITA GALLENTINE

To say our homes have little value and we need to do away with them for the sake of being the envy o...
ANITA GALLENTINE

I think residents ought to wake up and be concerned. People need to realize their lives won't be the...
ANITA GALLENTINE

Daytona is so hungry that anything goes. When do we say enough is enough? I'm not opposed to develop...
ANITA GALLENTINE

Traffic has become an issue as the city goes through many new developments and they should pay their...
ANITA GALLENTINE

I am not a great proponent of uncontrolled height, which is what we have here in Daytona Beach.
ANITA GALLENTINE

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.
ANITA FRAZIER

The Auburn event isn't designed to surprise anyone. Instead, we're attempting to stress the emergenc...
ANITA YODER

A number of roads have been closed and motorists should avoid moving water.
ANITA YODER

People need to learn to save the lives of the people they love. You would feel so bad if you didn't ...
ANITA YODER

This won't be a graded test, but it will be practice to make us better responders.
ANITA YODER

We received a complaint from a member of the public. The matter was investigated and appropriate act...
ANITA YODER

We met last night and decided we needed to come and support her. We have to be there for our Mary.
ANITA WHIRLEY

Tell her we love her.
ANITA WHIRLEY

We have to joke to keep from crying.
ANITA WHIRLEY

It hurts us very much, but we're going to stand behind her 100 percent.
ANITA WHIRLEY

Listen, the Mary we knew didn't do this.
ANITA WHIRLEY

Listen, the Mary we knew didn't do this. She was a wonderful person. We just don't understand.
ANITA WHIRLEY

I think she was just too embarrassed and ashamed.
ANITA WHIRLEY

It's up to (Federated) what they do with that space.
ANITA WALKER

She was so badly hurt, that the one spot where the dog had chewed her was like 10-12 inches and so b...
ANITA WALKER

He just had a hold of her and was chewing her and shaking her, just shaking her. And I was hitting t...
ANITA WALKER

I don't know what I would do if something happens to her.
ANITA WALKER

She doesn't deserve this to happen to her.
ANITA WALKER

I am refugee now, just like my parents were from Poland,
ANITA TUCKER

The secret, which nobody realized at the time, was that with this sand, which was 100 percent inorga...
ANITA TUCKER

This was the closest site to Beersheba, so we drove down one day with our three children,
ANITA TUCKER

I have no regrets about the past,
ANITA TUCKER

It is a victory. But we just won the battle. We didn't win the war.
ANITA TUCKER

We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage...
ANITA TUCKER

The majority of the people are trying to keep their heads up. [But] some are really depressed, We're...
ANITA TUCKER

I have absolutely no where to go tonight. I have no house, so I'm coming here to the Western Wall ne...
ANITA TUCKER

The first crops failed. The tomatoes grew large but fell off early. The sand could not hold them up,
ANITA TUCKER

I had a home; I had a big, successful business, a little piece of the land of Israel n all that was ...
ANITA TUCKER

It's quirky and yet there are very real people in it. The beauty of it is, yes, it's Maine, but it c...
ANITA STEWART

I find it amazingly truthful and honest and funny, because it is so spot-on in its relationships bet...
ANITA STEWART

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.

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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.

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