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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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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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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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