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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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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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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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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
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