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Thinking Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to…
- I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
- Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,…
- 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…
- I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle,…
- I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
- 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…
- I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
- I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
- I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
- I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
- Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then…
- When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with…
- 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…
- I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
- 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.…
- The free man never thinks of escape.
- I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love…
- Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and…
- 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…
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