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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
Start
Learn
Writing
Never
Existed
Truths
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Knew

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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 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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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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