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Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
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Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
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There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
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Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
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Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.
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I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
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