We're all like children. We... by Mary Wesley, a British Novelist

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“We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.”

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Name: Mary Wesley

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Jun 24, 1912

Date of Death: Dec 30, 2002

Profession: Novelist

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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

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We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

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