Fay Weldon Quotes - Page 4

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• I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

  Fay Weldon

  Sorry, Men, Wonder

  "The Heart of the Country". Book by Fay Weldon, 1987.

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• Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

  Fay Weldon

  Husband, Emotional, New Life

  "'Only One Way Out of Here'". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

  Fay Weldon

  Ordinary, Ordinary Person, Extremes

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon”, p.1126, Head of Zeus

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• Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

  Fay Weldon

  Take Me, Wells

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• Food is the supremest of pleasures.

  Fay Weldon

  Pleasure

  Fay Weldon (1981). “Watching me, watching you”, Simon & Schuster

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• There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

  Fay Weldon

  Perseverance, Defeat, Accepting

  Fay Weldon (1998). “Quite contrary”

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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.

  Fay Weldon

  Morning, Order, Next Day

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• Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.

  Fay Weldon

  Space, Giving, Poetry

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.231, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

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  Life, Blessed, Fate

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• One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

  Fay Weldon

  Learning, Cutting, Goes On

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• one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Learning, States

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.137, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

  Fay Weldon

  Circles, Forever, Sound

  Fay Weldon (1984). “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”, Pantheon

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

  Fay Weldon

  Fiction, Elements, Literature

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• If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

  Fay Weldon

  Acceptance, Men, Kind

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

  Fay Weldon

  Hope, Fear, Expectations

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

  Fay Weldon

  Infinity, Eternity, Ends

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

  Fay Weldon

  Nuisance, Publishers, Ifs

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• Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

  Fay Weldon

  Believe, Destiny, Chance

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

  Fay Weldon

  Desire, Prudence, One Thing

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.345, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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