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Way 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…
- Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.…
- I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
- Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
- Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you…
- The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has…
- the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
- 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 body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb…
- 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…
- 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…
- What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above 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…
- This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.
- I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in…
- I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
- The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at…
- In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you…
- I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would…
- He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness…
- There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.
- What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web…
- Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you…
- 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 didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with…
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- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen