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Jeanette Winterson has 421 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
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Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only…
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After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
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...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it…
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like…
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding…
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Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's…
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name?…
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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder…
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Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.
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I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted…
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine…
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If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any…
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My glass shall not persuade me I am old So long as youth and thou areof one date, But when in thee…
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