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We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
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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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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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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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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
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