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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.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.
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The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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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.
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
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I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
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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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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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