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All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
Jeanette Winterson
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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Jeanette Winterson
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette Winterson
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
Jeanette Winterson
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson
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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
Jeanette Winterson
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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
Jeanette Winterson
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Jeanette Winterson
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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
Jeanette Winterson
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