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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to not because someone's told me to.
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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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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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Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
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We shelter children for a time we live side by side with men and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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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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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.
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Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
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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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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.
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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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