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This quotation examines the core nature of Literature as articulated by Jeanette Winterson. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Literature provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.

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"I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people."

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"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."

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"I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written."

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"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."

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"I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America."

— Terry McAuliffe
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"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."

— Ray Bradbury
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"My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write."

— Mary Garden
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"Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society."

— Jung Chang
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