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Tells Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
- I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
- And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards…
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to…
- Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
- 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…
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