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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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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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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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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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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 infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
Fay Weldon
Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?
Fay Weldon
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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