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Won Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
- What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the…
- There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
- Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
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