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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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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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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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