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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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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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