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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
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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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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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