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I think you always feel braver in another language.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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The evening passes somehow I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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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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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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