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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Literature
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Whether
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Cosmos
Mystery

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