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I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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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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Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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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 is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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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.
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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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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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Reading is where the wild things are.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds.
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The only selfish life is a timid one.
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
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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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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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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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