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I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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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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The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
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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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I have no idea what happens next.
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Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
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We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
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No emotion is the final one.
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
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And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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