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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
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
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Venture
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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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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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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 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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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