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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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Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
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Reading is where the wild things are.
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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Some people are happy when they are at the sea I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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Life was a pre-death experience.
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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
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The only selfish life is a timid one.
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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
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