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" I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. "
Jeanette Winterson
Women
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" Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. "
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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. "
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" I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. "
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" If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. "
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" To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. "
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" Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. "
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" I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. "
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" We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. "
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" The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. "
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" Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. "
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" What you risk reveals what you value. "
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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? "
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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. "
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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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" Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. "
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" Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. "
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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. "
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