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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.

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
Conventional
Pity
Anyone
Women
Home
Never
Phased
Mould

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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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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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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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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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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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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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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