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Against Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
- In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been…
- Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
- Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away…
- In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care…
- What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web…
- I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am.…
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