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Jeanette Winterson Quotes: To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
         

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.


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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 don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.



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I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.



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Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.



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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.



I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.



Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.



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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.



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Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.





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I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.



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