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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
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Road
Find
Play
Damascus
Life
Pilgrimage
Thorns
Crown
Crowns
Rules

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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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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
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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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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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