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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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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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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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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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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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Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
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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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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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All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.
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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.
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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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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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Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
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I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
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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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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
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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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