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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
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.
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The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
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Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
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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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I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.
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Trust your creativity.
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
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Why is the measure of love loss?
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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