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Things Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- 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…
- What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?
- Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go…
- Reading is where the wild things are.
- 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…
- Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
- 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…
- When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but…
- Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
- There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
- 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…
- Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
- What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not…
- 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…
- To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run...
- And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only…
- 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 believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
- I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must…
- Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the…
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