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Long Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
- There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is…
- 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…
- 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…
- We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
- Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
- 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…
- Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
- While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- 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…
- If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the…
- Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
- 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…
- 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 had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture…
- 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.…
- She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some…
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- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
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