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We are all historians in our small way.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
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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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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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There are voices and they must be heard.
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread rarely is it only a door.
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The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
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Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
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I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.
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In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
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Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
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You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.
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