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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
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Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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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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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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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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We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
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