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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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We shelter children for a time we live side by side with men and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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