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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
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University Teacher
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London
England
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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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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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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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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.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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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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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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