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Back Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- 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,…
- 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…
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
- Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
- You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without…
- When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with…
- 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…
- St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She…
- Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside…
- Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will…
- Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to…
- The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
- People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can…
- Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
- Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you…
- Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There…
- Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,…
- Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You…
- Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of…
- I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in…
- I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back,…
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- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
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