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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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We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
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