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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
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
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Survival
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History
Note
Suicide

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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.
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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
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It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
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I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.
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It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.
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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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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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I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
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