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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Jeanette Winterson
Book, Fate, Addiction
Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.80, Random House

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

Jeanette Winterson
Fate, Destiny, Choices
Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Jeanette Winterson
Fate, Opposites, Choices
Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.97, Canongate Books

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Jeanette Winterson
Fate, Destiny, Worry

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Jeanette Winterson
Fate, May, Moments
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

Jeanette Winterson
Strong, Lying, Fate
Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Weight”, Canongate Books

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