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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quote: "Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life..."

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Jeanette Winterson

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