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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Saying
Fear
True
Find

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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
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Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.
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The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.
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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.
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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 power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals
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I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
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