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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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Reverie
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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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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
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Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.
Jeanette Winterson
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Jeanette Winterson
The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
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No emotion is the final one.
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Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
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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.
Jeanette Winterson
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
Jeanette Winterson
Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
Jeanette Winterson
The only selfish life is a timid one.
Jeanette Winterson
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
Jeanette Winterson
