Fay Weldon Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Fiction, Elements, Literature

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

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  Cynical, Next, Happens

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Chalcot Crescent”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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

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  Hope, Fear, Expectations

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

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

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  Writing, Learning, States

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

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• What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

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  Worry, Stop Worrying, Minutes

  Fay Weldon (2011). “What Makes Women Happy”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and leaves it, when love has gone, a shred, a simulacrum - dross, to be swept up from the factory floor, pitiful and dusty, useless... Do all men and women feel love before they die? This force, this source of light, that lies before the sun; glances off mountains and lakes, blinding and dazzling, on a Sunday afternoon; so brilliant you have to guard your soul, fold your arms to shield your heart from the very memory of it.

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  Memories, Lying, Heart

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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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• I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.

  Fay Weldon

  Lying, Clouds, Feelings

  Fay Weldon (2012). “The President’s Child”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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

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  Ordinary, Ordinary Person, Extremes

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

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• For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.

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  Children, Men, Lust

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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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• Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

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  Men, Feminist, Unhappy

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• As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

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  Children, Men, Disadvantages

  "I'm the only feminist there is - the others are all out of step". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.

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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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• 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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  Believe, Destiny, Men

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