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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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No emotion is the final one.
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
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I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
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Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
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The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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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.
Jeanette Winterson
Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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