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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.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
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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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If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.
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