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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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Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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