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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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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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Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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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.
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Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.
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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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