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Into Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
- ...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…
- 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…
- I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
- I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
- Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
- Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
- With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
- Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then…
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too…
- What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
- Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness…
- Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for…
- live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the…
- When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate…
- One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and…
- I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what…
- I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
- Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
- 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…
- I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would…
- The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look…
- 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…
- 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,…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- 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
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
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