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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
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Short Story Writer
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Manchester
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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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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
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Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.
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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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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
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The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
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