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Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value you don't have to go along with any of this you can think for yourself.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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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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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?
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The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.
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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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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.
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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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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
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