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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
Stubborn
Seldom
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Escape
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Poverty
Thing

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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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