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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
Remain
Mere
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Negotiation
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Puzzles
Anything
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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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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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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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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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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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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