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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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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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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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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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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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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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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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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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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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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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