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I am 46, and have been for some time past.

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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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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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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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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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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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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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