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Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
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I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
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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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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
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Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.
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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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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
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