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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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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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