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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Short Story Writer
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Manchester
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Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
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You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
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When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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