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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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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 don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
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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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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
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The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
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I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
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Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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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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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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