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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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Mislead
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Commerce
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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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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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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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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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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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