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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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