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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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People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
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We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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We are all historians in our small way.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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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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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'
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When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.
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