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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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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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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
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I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
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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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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing who wants my blood red and vein-blue?
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