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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
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Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
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I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
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Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
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