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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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
Writer
London
England
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Commerce
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Rarely
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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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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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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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Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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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 can never betray the people who are dead.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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