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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.
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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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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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 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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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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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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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