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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.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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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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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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