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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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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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We shelter children for a time we live side by side with men and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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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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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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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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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 do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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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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