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Jeanette Winterson

"There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become that city, that civilization, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what you hated, and what you hated is what you did not understand."

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"There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilization, but to become that city, that civilization, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what you hated, and what you hated is what you did not understand."

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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Donna Grant

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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Donna Grant

"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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Donna Grant

"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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Donna Grant

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

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Donna Grant

"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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Donna Grant

"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."

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Jeanette Winterson
"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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Jeanette Winterson
"The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world."

Love

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Jeanette Winterson
"I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion."

Character

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Jeanette Winterson
"Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself."

Life

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Jeanette Winterson
"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."

Love

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Jeanette Winterson
"The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct."

Time

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Jeanette Winterson
"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

Will

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Jeanette Winterson
"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"

Time

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Jeanette Winterson
"One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life."

Life

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Jeanette Winterson
"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."

Truth

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