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Death is only a small interruption.

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
Interruption
Interruptions
Small
Death

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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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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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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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The evening passes somehow I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
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Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
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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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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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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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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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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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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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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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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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