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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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Death is only a small interruption.
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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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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