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Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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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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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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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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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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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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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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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