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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
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When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
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If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
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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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