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I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past — whether parents, partners or friends — we should try and do that. It won't be perfect, it will be a compromise .. . but it might mean acceptance and, the big word, forgiveness.Jeanette Winterson
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Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets .Jeanette Winterson
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Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.Jeanette Winterson
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Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'.It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'.Jeanette Winterson
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I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.Jeanette Winterson
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Gifts – that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.Jeanette Winterson