"I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company."

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Source : "Just don't mention Jane Austen". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2001.

Anita Brookner

#Book Quotes #Want Quotes #Company Quotes

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”
“People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.”
“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.”
“As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.”
“I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.”
“The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.”
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
“I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors.”

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