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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
– Anita Brookner

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  2. … forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on. – Julian Barnes
  3. I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. – Anita Brookner
  4. Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner
  5. That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself. – Anita Brookner
  6. That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself. – Anita Brookner
  7. Of course, the spectacle of two people’s happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed. – Anita Brookner
  8. And without understanding, could each properly love the other? – Anita Brookner
  9. Old times, sad times. I feel better about them now than I did then. – Anita Brookner
  10. When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
  11. But this kiss? It’s ruined me. This is the type of kiss I never knew existed. It’s like falling and flying, all in the same moment. – Leisa Rayven
  12. Life is but an empty dream – Ehrich Weiss
  13. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  14. To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do. – Brian L Weiss
  15. Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized. – Sam Weiss
  16. With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art. – Peter Weiss
  17. If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes. – Robin A Weiss
  18. For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans. – Brian L Weiss
  19. We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
  20. I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
  21. Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. – Anita Shreve
  22. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
  23. Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
  24. We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
  25. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
  26. The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
  27. You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. – Coco Chanel
  28. It’s not Life that begans at forty, it’s Death- Victoria – Kathy Lette
  29. If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  30. …imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one’s life in a coal mine. – Hector Berlioz
  31. Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago. – Natascha Kampusch
  32. Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It’s the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow. – Sharon Moalem
  33. There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight – Ezra Pound
  34. At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  35. The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death. – Ta Obreht
  36. The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries! – Alice Walker
  37. The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living. – Arnold Bennett
  38. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. – Thomas Jefferson
  39. Jews don’t camp…The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. – Daniel Silva
  40. …the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone. – Paul Hoffman

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