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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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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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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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