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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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Alvechurch
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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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