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Anita Brookner

"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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Donna Grant

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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Donna Grant

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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Donna Grant

"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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Donna Grant

"I think the killers get far too much attention."

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Donna Grant

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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Donna Grant

"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

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Donna Grant

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

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Donna Grant

"They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models."

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Donna Grant

"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

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Anita Brookner
"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."

Man

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Anita Brookner
"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."

Love

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Anita Brookner
"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."

Home

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Anita Brookner
"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."

People

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Anita Brookner
"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Love

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

Religion

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Anita Brookner
"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Woman

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Anita Brookner
"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."

Love

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Anita Brookner
"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."

Time

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Anita Brookner
"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Life

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