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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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