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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Stories
Reverie
Forgiveness
Tragedy
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
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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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You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.
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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
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If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
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