"[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and……" — Jeanette Winterson
"[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination."
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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson has 419 quotes on this site.
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To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.
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Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there…
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After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.
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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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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories…
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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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Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we…
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of…
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More Doses Quotes
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one of 77 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us…
— Leslie Weatherhead
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
— Lily Tomlin
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I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians…
— Susan P. Crawford
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Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the…
— Corey Taylor
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You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
— Paulo Coelho
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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know…
— Mark Twain
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We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I…
— Annie Dillard
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be…
— Russell Baker
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature…
— Princess Marie Bonaparte
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