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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
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I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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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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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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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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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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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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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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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