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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
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London
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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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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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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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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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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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