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Make Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- 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…
- The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have…
- When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong…
- 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…
- If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
- If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.
- Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
- I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
- Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
- 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…
- I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have…
- Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will…
- Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
- 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…
- i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of…
- What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like…
- What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not…
- 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…
- I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
- 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…
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