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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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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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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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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?
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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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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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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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