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Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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memory is so selective wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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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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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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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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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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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
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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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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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