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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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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Wishful
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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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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.
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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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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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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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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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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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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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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