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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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