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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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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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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
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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 live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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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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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
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