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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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Worcestershire
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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 put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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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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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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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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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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
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