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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Blame
Telling
Truth
Doe
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Confession

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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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