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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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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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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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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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.
Anita Brookner
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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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