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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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Short Story Writer
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Manchester
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Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
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Some people are happy when they are at the sea I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.
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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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What you risk reveals what you value.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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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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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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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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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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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.
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There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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