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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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Simplicity
Never
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Reading
Misleading
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Mislead
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Commerce
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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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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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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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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Death is only a small interruption.
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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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