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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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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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Of course you have to believe in destiny that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
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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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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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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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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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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.
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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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We shelter children for a time we live side by side with men and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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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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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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