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All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
Jeanette Winterson
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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
Jeanette Winterson
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette Winterson
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette Winterson
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson
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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
Jeanette Winterson
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson
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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Jeanette Winterson
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Jeanette Winterson
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Jeanette Winterson
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Jeanette Winterson
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
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