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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
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Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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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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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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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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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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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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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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