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One Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter…
- Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.…
- When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The…
- What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of…
- One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
- 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
- There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
- However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is…
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the…
- There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult…
- I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married…
- Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
- I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something…
- I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and…
- Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of…
- You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t…
- Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a…
- I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love…
- 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…
- I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that…
- What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to…
- I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a…
- You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things…
- It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle