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"She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of it, which was unsurprising as the oven and the wall were black. Mrs Winterson replied, 'It's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.' That is a heavy load for a gas oven to bear. She liked that phrase and it was more than once used towards me; when some well-wisher asked how I was, Mrs W looked down and sighed, 'She's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.'This was even worse for me than it had been for the gas oven. I was particularly worried about the 'dead' part, and wondered which buried and unfortunate relative I had so offended."
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"Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag."
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"God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation."
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"You are the grand estate and administrator of - now."
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"You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none."
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"The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari]."
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"Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare."
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"Wherever you are you have to work to earn your own living."
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"I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures."
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"The purpose of subduing is a function of taking responsibility for the entire earth."
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"For everything you embrace, there is a consequence."
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"I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to."
Relationship
"Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture."
Self
"Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully."
Love
"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
Poetry
"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
Ambition
"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
Growth
"The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich."
Time
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
Philosophy
"The wider we read the freer we become."
Knowledge
"It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?"
Courage
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