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The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
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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Manchester
England
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Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value you don't have to go along with any of this you can think for yourself.
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I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
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He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
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Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
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I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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Trust your creativity.
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It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.
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