"I am a writer who happens to love……" — Jeanette Winterson
"I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write."
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Jeanette Winterson
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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 Happens Quotes
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed,…
— J. J. Abrams
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
— Jane Austen
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You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with…
— Paul Auster
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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going…
— Lauren Bacall
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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