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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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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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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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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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