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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'
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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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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 kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
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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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Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
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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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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
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We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.
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