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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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Film Producer
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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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There are voices and they must be heard.
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I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
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Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.
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I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.
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Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
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