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Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Essayist
Feminist
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Generosity
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Writing

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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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