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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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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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