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I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
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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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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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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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
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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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