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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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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
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Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.
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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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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
Jeanette Winterson
Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.
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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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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
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You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
Jeanette Winterson
Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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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.
Jeanette Winterson
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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