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The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
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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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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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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
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I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.
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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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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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Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
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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 had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
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