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Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'
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The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
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I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
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