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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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People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
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Reading is where the wild things are.
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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
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Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
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The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.
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I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?
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I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.
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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 would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.
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Why is the measure of love loss?
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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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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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