• 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.

  Anita Brookner
  British Writer 1938-
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. sunbeam
2. people
3. public
4. answer
5. slurs
6. would

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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. by : Anita Brookner

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