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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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