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Jeanette Winterson Quotes: 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.
         

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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