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Jeanette Winterson

"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."

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"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."

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"You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you."
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"At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom."
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"He: What's the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her."
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