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Jeanette Winterson

"Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants."

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"Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy of the collaborative mind and body, pull our tissue apart like taffy, and expose the composition of our life sustaining organs. Telling our personal story forces us to account for any actions that made us laugh, cry, scream and shout, or hide behind a cloak of mootness. Critical examination of the self allows one to disintegrate the envelope of their present personality and make up a new imaging."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and secrets all heaped together so that the whole story, from beginning to end, depends on how you look at it."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", great story, great film."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."

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Jeanette Winterson
"Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing."

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Jeanette Winterson
"I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher."

Philosophy

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Jeanette Winterson
"I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness."

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Jeanette Winterson
"Happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you."

Happiness

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Jeanette Winterson
"Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes."

Mindfulness

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Jeanette Winterson
"Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as I start to run?"

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Jeanette Winterson
"It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language."

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Jeanette Winterson
"A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under."

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Jeanette Winterson
"Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun."

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Jeanette Winterson
"She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice."

Family

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