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Anita Brookner

"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 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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