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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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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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We shelter children for a time we live side by side with men and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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