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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.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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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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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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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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