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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Manchester
England
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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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When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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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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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
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