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I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
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
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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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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
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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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I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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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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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.
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