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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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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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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.
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The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.
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I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
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