'Life is not a night club,'
says Blanche to her old friend Patrick in chapter 8 of
A Misalliance when he reveals unwise feelings for the flaky Sally and an even flakier association with an analyst. It's a good line, and I've pointed out before that
A Misalliance is a quotable novel.
And here's Anita Brookner herself in interview in 1994:
...if someone said to her, not that she was gloomy and sad,
but that her novels were, how would she reply? 'I'd agree. I don't intend them
to be like that, but I think they're an accurate reflection. Life is not a
nightclub, and some of the reviews I've had, particularly from women, which
assume that it is, seem to have been quite defensive. These women are angry.
They believe they can get what they want from life. Maybe they're just lucky
enough not to have found that out that they can't.'
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