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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.
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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
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I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
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Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
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She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
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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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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
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The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.
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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
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