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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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Worcestershire
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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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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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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