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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.
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Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease, would have to come to her aid,
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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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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in.
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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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[...] no man is free of his own history.
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Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again.
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Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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I am 46, and have been for some time past.
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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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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.— Anita Brookner
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.
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Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.— Anita Brookner
Old times, sad times. I feel better about them now than I did then.
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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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[...] death is only a small interruption.
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel.
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Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.
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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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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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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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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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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
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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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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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I think that those few words were my greatest mistake.
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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've never got on very well with Jane Austen.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
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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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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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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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If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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