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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
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
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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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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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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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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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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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