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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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We are all historians in our small way.
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.
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You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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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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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
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No emotion is the final one.
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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
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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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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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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
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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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It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
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When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.
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Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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