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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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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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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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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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I have no idea what happens next.
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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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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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
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