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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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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
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Writing
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Truths

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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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Death is only a small interruption.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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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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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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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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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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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