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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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Names are still magic even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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No emotion is the final one.
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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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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
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Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
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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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