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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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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
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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 no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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