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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.
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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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