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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Jeanette Winterson
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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
Jeanette Winterson
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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Jeanette Winterson
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Jeanette Winterson
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson
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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
Jeanette Winterson
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette Winterson
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
Jeanette Winterson
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London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Jeanette Winterson
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Jeanette Winterson
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You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
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