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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
Art Historian
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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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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.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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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 evening passes somehow I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
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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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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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