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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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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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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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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
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