Jeanette Winterson Quotes

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• To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
• Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
• After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
• ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to…
• Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
• I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
• There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
• The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
• You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
• The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,…
• Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of…
• It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman…
• To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter…
• I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
• We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this…
• Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.
• I don't believe in happy endings.
• It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
• What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy…

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