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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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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.
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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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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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Food is the supremest of pleasures.
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
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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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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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.
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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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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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