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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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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Tempted
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Trappings
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He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
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I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
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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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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
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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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Reading is where the wild things are.
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
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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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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
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Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
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