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One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon
definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
— James Weldon Johnson
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain ...
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
— 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
guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine
— 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
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
— Fay Weldon
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
— Fay Weldon
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
— Fay Weldon
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
— James Weldon Johnson
Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.
— James Weldon Johnson
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
— Fay Weldon
So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
— 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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.
— Fay Weldon
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
— Fay Weldon