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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
Anita Brookner
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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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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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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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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Death is only a small interruption.
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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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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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
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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