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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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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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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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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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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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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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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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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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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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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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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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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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