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When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
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The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
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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 am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
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He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
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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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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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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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I have no idea what happens next.
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The only selfish life is a timid one.
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