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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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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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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
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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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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
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What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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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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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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