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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
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University Teacher
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London
England
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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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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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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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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