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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
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Doors
Open
Books
Reading
Another
Book
Thing
World

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