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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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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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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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We shelter children for a time we live side by side with men and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
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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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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.
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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.
Fay Weldon
No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
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