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There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
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
England
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I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
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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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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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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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I have no idea what happens next.
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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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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
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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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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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