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She drank sweet coffee, sweet tea, sweet cocoa and sweet sherry. — Fay Weldon

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

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens. — Fay Weldon

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

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves. — James Weldon Johnson

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

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

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

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

Detective Comic #27: The very first glimpse we get of the guy and already he looks pissed. — Glen Weldon

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

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually — Fay Weldon

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat. — James Weldon Johnson

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

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

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. — Fay Weldon

I look at you
Across those fires and the dark. — Weldon Kees

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies. — Faye 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. — Fay Weldon

In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime. — James Weldon Johnson

He believes himself to be an agent of change; he is the living embodiment of the simple, implacably optimistic notion Never again. — Glen Weldon

Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs. — Fay Weldon

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

The really odd, unsettling thing was that Batman was smiling. Not — Glen Weldon

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

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

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford. — Fay Weldon

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

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine — Fay Weldon

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

Nothing about the character was new. He was simply a combination of tropes from many sources: even his origin story itself was full of swipes. Kane — Glen Weldon

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people. — Fay Weldon

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. — Fay Weldon

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

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art. — Felix De Weldon

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

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. — Fay Weldon

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

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

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic. — Curt Weldon

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. — James Weldon Johnson

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson

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

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. — Fay Weldon

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information. — Curt Weldon

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson

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

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

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

Food is the supremest of pleasures. — Fay Weldon

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

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

Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much. — Fay Weldon

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement. — Fay Weldon

Getting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven. — Fay Weldon

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

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

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. — Fay Weldon

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

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. — Fay Weldon

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. — James Weldon Johnson

Too young for a lot of things, but that didn't stop them from happening. — Weldon Burge

[R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates in history. — James Weldon Johnson

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely. — James Weldon Johnson

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. — James Weldon Johnson

New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it. — James Weldon Johnson

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image. — James Weldon Johnson

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient. — James Weldon Johnson

Loving is upsetting. That's the point of it. — Fay Weldon

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction. — James Weldon Johnson

Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms. — Curt Weldon

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

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. — Fay Weldon

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

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. — James Weldon Johnson

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? — James Weldon Johnson

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. — James Weldon Johnson

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

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers. — Curt Weldon

Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously. — James Weldon Johnson

The Libyans gave us everything I asked for. — Curt Weldon

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

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief. — James Weldon Johnson

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. — James Weldon Johnson

Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst. — James Weldon Johnson

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

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

...the performative online biliousness that has come to be known as trolling... — Glen Weldon

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission. — Curt Weldon

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

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

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

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

Else to go Felicity sits down upon the steps to consider — Fay Weldon

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

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. — Fay Weldon

If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential — Fay Weldon

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger. — Curt Weldon

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

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. — Curt Weldon