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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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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson
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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
Jeanette Winterson
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
Jeanette Winterson
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson
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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
Jeanette Winterson
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Jeanette Winterson
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
Jeanette Winterson
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
Jeanette Winterson
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson
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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
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