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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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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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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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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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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.
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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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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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