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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
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London
England
Remain
Mere
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Negotiation
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Puzzles
Anything
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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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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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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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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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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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