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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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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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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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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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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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