"The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they……" — Fay Weldon
"The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world."
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28 Quotes by Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon has 28 quotes on this site.
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If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
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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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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because…
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When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't…
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So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has…
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything,…
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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows…
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them…
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Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
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One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep,…
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More Afflicts Quotes
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one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
— Joseph Hall
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing.…
— Fred Saberhagen
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
— Agnes Repplier
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It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
— Kenny Smith
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I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of…
— Pope Francis
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Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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