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“Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.”

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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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“Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?”

Ifs Children Long Moments Body Today Death Gone Window Logic Prepared Illness Storm Yesterday Broke Why Not Warning Troops Small Child Baffled

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“unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.”

Silence Family Break Unhappy Conspiracy Forgiven Silence Is Happy Family Never Forgive Unhappy Family

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“I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.”

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“Very often history is a means of denying the past.”

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Book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.”

Needs Country Past

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.”

Helping Use Shows Light Poetry Situation Cutting Easier Prose Poetry Is Lasers

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Persons Reading Rooms Creative Reader Higher Disappear Tricks Indian Passive Rope

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson