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She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

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

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

The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffere everything.

One tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

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

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

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

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...

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

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

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

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.

I'd have apple pie. You break through the crust and it's juicy underneath.

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

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

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

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

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

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

Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.

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

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

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

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

My troubles are not outside me,' said Esther, 'they are inside me. Those are the worst troubles of all.

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

I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.

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

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

Men are irrelevant.

It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.

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

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

Else to go Felicity sits down upon the steps to consider

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

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

Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.

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

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

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

Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it.

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

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

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

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

Getting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven.

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

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

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

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Absolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I really do understand that.

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

If that was dying, I don't want to do it again.

It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.