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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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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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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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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
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Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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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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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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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
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Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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