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I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
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Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
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There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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Some people are happy when they are at the sea I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.
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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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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.
Jeanette Winterson
We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson
She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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