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Anita Brookner

"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."

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"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."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."

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"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."

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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

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"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

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"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."
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"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."
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"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."
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"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."
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"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself."
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"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
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"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long."
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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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"Great writers are the saints for the godless."
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"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
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