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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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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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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There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.
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Some people are happy when they are at the sea I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.
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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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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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What you risk reveals what you value.
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Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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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.
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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