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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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The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
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Their throats were bare for God.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.
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Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.
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Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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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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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
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