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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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
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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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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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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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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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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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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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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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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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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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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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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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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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