Jeanette Winterson quote: Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes ...

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

~ Jeanette Winterson ~

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