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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
Moral
Sense
Great
Repository
Punished
Wicked
Fiction
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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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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
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