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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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Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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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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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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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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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
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