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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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