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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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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?
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A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.
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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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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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