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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Telling
Trust
Stories

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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
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The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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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 be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
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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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I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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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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Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.
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