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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
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