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Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
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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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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
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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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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
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We are all historians in our small way.
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