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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
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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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It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
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Trust your creativity.
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There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
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We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.
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You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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