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Place Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- 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,…
- In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this…
- London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
- Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
- Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
- 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…
- It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are…
- Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
- A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
- As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the…
- Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past…
- It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields…
- In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care…
- That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
- I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with…
- 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…
- I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your…
- Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you…
- Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
- 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…
More Place Quotes
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- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden