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ORANGES ARE NOTTHE ONLY FRUIT
Jeanette Winterson is the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, Art and Lies, Gut Symmetries, The World and Other Places and a collection of essays, Art Objects.
ALSO BY JEANETTE WINTERSON
FictionThe PassionSexing the CherryWritten on the BodyArt & LiesGut SymmetriesThe World and Other PlacesThe PowerBook
Comic BookBoating for Beginners
Non-FictionArt Objects
ScreenplaysOranges Are Not the Only Fruit (BBC TV)Great Moments in Aviation (BBC TV)The Passion (Miramax Films)
Jeanette Winterson
ORANGES ARE NOTTHE ONLY FRUIT
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TO PHILIPPA BREWSTER WHO WAS THE BEGINNING
‘When thick rinds are used the top must bethoroughly skimmed, or a scum will form marringthe final appearance.’
From The Making of Marmalade by Mrs Beeton
‘Oranges are not the only fruit’
Nell Gwynn 
CONTENTS
Introduction
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
INTRODUCTION
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT was written during the winter of 1983 and the spring of 1984. I was 24. At that time I was sharing two rooms and a hip bath with the actress Vicky Licorish. She had no money, I had no money, we could not afford the luxury of a separate whites wash and so were thankful of the fashion for coloured knickers which allowed those garments most closely associated with our self-esteem, not to be grey. Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don’t matter a bit. I have had plenty of each and they have only encouraged me, but dinginess, the damp small confines of the mediocre and the gradual corrosion of beauty and light, the compromising and the settling; these things make good work impossible. When Keats was depressed he put on a clean shirt. When Radclyffe Hall was oppressed she ordered new sets of silk underwear from Jermyn Street. Byron, as we all know, allowed only the softest, purest and whit ............

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