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When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

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
Make
Necessarily
Break
Company
Freedom
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