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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.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
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The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
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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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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
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How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?
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How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?
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I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
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I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
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