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We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.
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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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I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
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