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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Manchester
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
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Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.
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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread rarely is it only a door.
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
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How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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