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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
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Death

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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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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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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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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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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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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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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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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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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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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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