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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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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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