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“Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.” quote by Fay Weldon — Download Open image

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

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“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring up their kids, you cook their food, you wash their clothes, you warm their beds, you fuss over your face day after day so they'll fancy you, you wear yourself out to keep them happy and at the…

“Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.”

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

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“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.”

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“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime…

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How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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