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..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
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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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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
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Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
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