"Anita Brookner" CBE is a British, Man Booker Prize/Booker award-winning novelist and art historian.

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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.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

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.

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

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.