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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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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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Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
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I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.
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A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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