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Anita Brookner was a British novelist and art historian famous for her elegiac and introspective novels. Her writing often explored themes of loneliness, yearning, and the constraints of society. She influenced contemporary literature and earned critical acclaim, including the Booker Prize. Here are 36 of her quotes:
In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.
Anita Brookner
The house - a substantial but essentially modest suburban villa - was furnished with voluptuous grandeur in approximations of various styles, predominantly those of several Louis, with late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century additions. Heavy coloured glass ashtrays of monstrous size and weight rested in inlaid marquetry tables of vaguely Pompadour associations. At dinner we drank champagne from ruby Bohemian glasses: the meat was carved at a Boulle-type sideboard. ‘Regency' wallpaper of dark green and lighter green stripes was partially covered by gilt-framed landscapes of no style whatsoever.
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner
Occupation: English NovelistBorn: July 16, 1928
Died: March 10, 2016
Quotes count: 36
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