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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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
Pure
Novel
Puzzle
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Negotiation
Else
Puzzles
Anything
Cast
Writing
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Remain
Mere
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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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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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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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