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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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Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s why it’s…
— Mike Nichols
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of…
— Mary Higgins Clark
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most…
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Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those…
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For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in…
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There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears…
— Jonathan Maberry
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He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood…
— David Wong
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Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a…
— Daphne Guinness
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