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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Manchester
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As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
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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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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
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Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
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I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
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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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I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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