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You can never betray the people who are dead.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
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London
England
People
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Sunbeams
Judaism
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Dead
Never
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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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Death is only a small interruption.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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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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