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Us Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and…
- What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
- The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
- If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
- What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
- I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains…
- Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer…
- Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside…
- We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
- 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…
- Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives…
- 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…
- Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
- Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend…
- I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are…
- i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of…
- We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.
- We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle