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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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Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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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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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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