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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
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What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
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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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Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
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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 fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
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In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
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