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Why is the measure of love loss?
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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Love
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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
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Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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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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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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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
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Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.
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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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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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It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
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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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