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Very Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
- I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than…
- I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
- However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is…
- Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on…
- In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies…
- Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.
- Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside…
- The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
- While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet…
- I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what…
- I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
- I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes,…
- I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are…
- I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture…
- I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not…
- One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a…
- Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong