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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
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Doe
Attach
Confession
Blame
Telling
Truth

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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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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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Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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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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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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