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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
Art Historian
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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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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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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Death is only a small interruption.
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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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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