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In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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The only selfish life is a timid one.
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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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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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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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What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
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A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.
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As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
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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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