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Go 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…
- We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.
- Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go…
- When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours…
- 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…
- With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
- They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our…
- Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to…
- There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big…
- 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…
- This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified…
- I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
- Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
- Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a…
- If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes.…
- There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on…
- The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go…
More Go Quotes
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
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