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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.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
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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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