Jeanette Winterson quote: Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear ...

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with ...

~ Jeanette Winterson ~

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