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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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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
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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.
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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
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I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing who wants my blood red and vein-blue?
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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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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Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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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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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
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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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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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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'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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