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" I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. "
Jeanette Winterson
Somewhere
Truth Is
Truth
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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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" 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 like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. "
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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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" We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. "
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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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" Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. "
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" The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. "
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" What you risk reveals what you value. "
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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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" Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. "
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" To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. "
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" What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being. "
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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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" 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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" I'm not a quitter. "
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" I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. "
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" I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. "
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" Naked is the best disguise. "
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