It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually … - Jeanette Winterson

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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Jeanette Winterson

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

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Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

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Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

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Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.

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. . . to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

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It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.

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Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

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You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

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