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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookner

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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
People
Rare
Strategy
Relationship
Decision
Happens
Real
Strategists
Love
Strategist
Life
Pilgrimage

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One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
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And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
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Romanticism is not just a mode it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
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Death is only a small interruption.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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The evening passes somehow I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
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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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