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Need Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
- To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
- Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I…
- I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.…
- For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.…
- There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of…
- But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
- Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
- 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…
- 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…
- Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog 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…
- Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson