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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
Decision
Happens
Real
Strategists
Love
Strategist
Life
Pilgrimage
People
Rare
Strategy
Relationship

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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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You can never betray the people who are dead.
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
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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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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
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Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
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I think you always feel braver in another language.
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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.
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I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
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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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I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.
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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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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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