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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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University Teacher
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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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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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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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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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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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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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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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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