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When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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