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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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