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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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Worcestershire
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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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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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I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
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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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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.
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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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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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