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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
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Manchester
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I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
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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 don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
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We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.
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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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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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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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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
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