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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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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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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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