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Only Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
- There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
- The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,…
- It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman…
- 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…
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there
- 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…
- Only the impossible is worth the effort.
- I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
- The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has…
- the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
- 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…
- Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
- 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.…
- Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in…
- The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.
- …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
- 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…
- There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
- The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial.…
- She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle