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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
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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Manchester
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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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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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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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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Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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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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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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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
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Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
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Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
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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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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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No emotion is the final one.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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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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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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