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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.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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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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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
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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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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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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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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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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 learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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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There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
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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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