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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.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.
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There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread rarely is it only a door.
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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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Why is the measure of love loss?
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History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
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