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Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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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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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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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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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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Their throats were bare for God.
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We are all historians in our small way.
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