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Anita Brookner

"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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"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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"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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 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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"Great writers are the saints for the godless."

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