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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
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I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.
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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
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I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
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When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.
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People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
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The only selfish life is a timid one.
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When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.
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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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