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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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