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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.
Fay Weldon
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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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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?
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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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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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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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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I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
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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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one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
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When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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