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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
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The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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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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History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
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I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
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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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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
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I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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