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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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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Still
Properly
Human
Library
Humans
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Behavior
Problems
Least
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Baffle
Problem
Filed

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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