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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
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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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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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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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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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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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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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
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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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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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Death is only a small interruption.
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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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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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