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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
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Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
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There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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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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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.
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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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In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
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We are all historians in our small way.
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