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The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
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I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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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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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
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I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
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Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
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