British - Novelist | August 27, 1959 - 1
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.
Jeanette Winterson
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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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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
HomeCuriousYouNeverAlwaysCome
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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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.
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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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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
YouPowerfulKnowWillMatterNever
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
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