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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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The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.
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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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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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I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
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There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
Jeanette Winterson
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.
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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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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
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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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