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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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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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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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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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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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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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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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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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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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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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