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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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
Dance
Singing
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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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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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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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 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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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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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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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 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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Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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Death is only a small interruption.
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