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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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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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Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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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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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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