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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
Interruption
Interruptions

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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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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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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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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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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 can never betray the people who are dead.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
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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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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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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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