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Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play. (Jeanette Winterson)
Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet. View quote
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The free man never thinks of escape. View quote
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She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected. View quote
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. View quote
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One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find. View quote
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If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. View quote
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I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. View quote
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find. View quote
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The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. View quote
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...I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. (Jeanette Winterson)
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own. View quote
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I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. View quote
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Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth. View quote
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. View quote
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I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds. View quote
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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in. View quote
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If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. View quote
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. View quote
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. View quote
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. (Jeanette Winterson)
A bridge is a meeting place... a possibility, a metaphor. View quote
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Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries. View quote
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I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it. View quote
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I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does. View quote
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