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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 wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
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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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