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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Worcestershire
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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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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