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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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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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I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
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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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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread rarely is it only a door.
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
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I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
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We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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