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Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959.
* She was adopted and raised in Accrington, Lancashire.
* Her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published in 1985.
* It won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel and was adapted into a television film in 1990.
* Winterson has written 12 novels, 5 non-fiction books, and 2 plays.
* She has won numerous awards, including the E.M. Forster Award and the Lambda Literary Award.
* She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
* She is a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights and social justice.
* She is a fascinating and influential writer who continues to challenge and inspire readers.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

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Time

Jeanette Winterson

Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

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Love

Jeanette Winterson

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

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Love

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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

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Books

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Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

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Love

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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

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Love

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I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

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Life

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As your lover describes you, so you are.

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Love

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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?