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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Source: Novelists in Interview (ed. by John Haffenden, 1985).
-- Anita Brookner, (Jul 16 1928-2016), English art historian, writer; She wrote biographical studies of 18th C. painters, including Jacques-Louis David, 1981; wrote novel Hotel du Lac, 1984.