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Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
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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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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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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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
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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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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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No emotion is the final one.
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I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.
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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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Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
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Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.
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In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
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