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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
Art Historian
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University Teacher
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London
England
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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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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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Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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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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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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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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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Death is only a small interruption.
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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 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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