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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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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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One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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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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If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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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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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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