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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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Thing
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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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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Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
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Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.
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Reading is where the wild things are.
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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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