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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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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I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
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The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
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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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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
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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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Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
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Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?
Jeanette Winterson
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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