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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
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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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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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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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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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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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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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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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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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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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For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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