The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Time has no meaning, space and place have no meaning, on this journey. All times can be inhabited, all places visited. In… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“My grandmother whispering to herself, over and over, "David is in heaven now, David is in heaven now,' my mind repeating Schrodinger's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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