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“It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.”

Quote by Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is a renowned British author known for her distinctive literary style and profound social commentary. Her works span a wide range of themes, including novels, essays, and poetry. Winterson's novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' is a story about growth, faith, and sexuality that has received widespread acclaim. more

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“What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.”

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“Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.”

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“I have no idea what happens next.”

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“What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?”

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“Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.”

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“Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there”

Body Light Certain Secret Written Lifetime Code Visible Accumulation

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

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Book:Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

Source: Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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