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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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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 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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What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?
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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
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It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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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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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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