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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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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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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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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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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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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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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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