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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
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University Teacher
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London
England
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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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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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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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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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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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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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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