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Most Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
- What you eat is the most political thing you do every day
- Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
- Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head…
- 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…
- The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at…
- Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
- The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.…
- 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…
- I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster