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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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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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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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What you risk reveals what you value.
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It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
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Trust your creativity.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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