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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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Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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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 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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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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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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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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