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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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