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It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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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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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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