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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
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Life was a pre-death experience.
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Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
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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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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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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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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
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