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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
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Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes 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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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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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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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