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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Manchester
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
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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.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
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She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
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How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
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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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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
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I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
Jeanette Winterson
