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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

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
Freed
Despair
Living
Writing

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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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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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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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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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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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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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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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