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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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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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Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
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You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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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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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
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Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
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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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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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Trust your creativity.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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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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I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing who wants my blood red and vein-blue?
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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?
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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.
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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
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