Fay Weldon Short Quotes

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Push, rend, slither, pop, baby's here. Baby cries.

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Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

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Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

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One learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

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Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

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People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

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Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

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By and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

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I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

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Agree with your accusers, loudly and clearly. They will shut up sooner.

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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

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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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A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

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Memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

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I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?

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The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

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My children are ungrateful: they don't care. That is my great reward. They are free.

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Who cares about half a second after the big bang; what about the half second before?

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Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

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Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

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The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

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Much sheer effort goes into avoiding truth: left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

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Your generation does too much sharing. To share grief is to double grief, not halve it.

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Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

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Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

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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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Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

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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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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

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