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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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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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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
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Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
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Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
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What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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