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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Trumpets
Blowing
Walls
Consequence
Wall
Fall
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