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Them Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of…
- 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…
- Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's…
- There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is…
- My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
- Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who…
- 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…
- 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…
- Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
- 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…
- When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
- What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for…
- 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…
- In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence…
- 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…
- Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away…
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
- People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can…
- They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big…
- He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them…
- Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
- Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I…
- Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster