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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Manchester
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
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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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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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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
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What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
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Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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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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If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.
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