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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 fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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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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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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I have no idea what happens next.
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