"A curse on this game. How can you……" — Jeanette Winterson
"A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?"
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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
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...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great…
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly,…
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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try…
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