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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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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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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
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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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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 didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.
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I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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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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