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" If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. "
Jeanette Winterson
Yourself
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" What you risk reveals what you value. "
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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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" Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. "
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" The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. "
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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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" 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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" Naked is the best disguise. "
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" To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. "
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" Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. "
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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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" Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. "
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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. "
Jeanette Winterson
Behavior
Animal
Cage
" Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. "
Jeanette Winterson
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Experience
Professionalism
" Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. "
Jeanette Winterson
Depression
Place
Me
" 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. "
Jeanette Winterson
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Create
Listening
" Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. "
Jeanette Winterson
Enough
Yourself
You
" I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. "
Jeanette Winterson
Believe
People
Ideas
" What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being. "
Jeanette Winterson
Us
Our
Invisible
" 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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Focus
" We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. "
Jeanette Winterson
Will
Die
Irrelevant
" 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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Work
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" I'm not a quitter. "
Jeanette Winterson
Quitter
" 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
Always
Self
Place
" I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. "
Jeanette Winterson
Women
Writer
Write