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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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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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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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