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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.
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People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
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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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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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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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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?
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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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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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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