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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
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Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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I have no idea what happens next.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
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Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
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