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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.

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
Every
Eats
Never
Mode
Men
Literally
Life
Romance
Justice
Waiting
Women
Right
Romanticism

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