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You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.
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Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.
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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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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
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Reading is where the wild things are.
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It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
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It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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No emotion is the final one.
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..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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