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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
"It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark."
"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
"I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night."
"I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well."
Explore more quotes by Jeanette Winterson
"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."
"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."
"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world."
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
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