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