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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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It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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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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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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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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I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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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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Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.
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Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
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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.
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The only selfish life is a timid one.
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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
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