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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.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.


Anita Brookner  Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner CBE (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016[1]) was an English award-winning novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Man Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.

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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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I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.

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I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

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I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

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I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

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I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

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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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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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