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Needs 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.…
- The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they…
- 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…
- I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an…
- 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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