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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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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
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Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Nothing
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Life
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
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I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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