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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
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History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
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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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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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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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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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In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
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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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It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
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