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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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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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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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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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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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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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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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