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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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University Teacher
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London
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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.
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