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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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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

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"God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction."

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"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

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"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."
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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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"Great writers are the saints for the godless."
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."
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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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"In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you."
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