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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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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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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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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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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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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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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.
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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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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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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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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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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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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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