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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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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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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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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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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
Anita Brookner
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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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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.
Anita Brookner
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
Anita Brookner
Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
Anita Brookner
