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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?
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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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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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
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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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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
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I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
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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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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 don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.
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I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.
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As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
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If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.
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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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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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