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All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Jeanette Winterson
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
Jeanette Winterson
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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.
Jeanette Winterson
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My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
Jeanette Winterson
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Jeanette Winterson
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What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Jeanette Winterson
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
Jeanette Winterson
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Jeanette Winterson
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson
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I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
Jeanette Winterson
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Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Jeanette Winterson
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