"I don't understand why people talk of art……" — Jeanette Winterson
"I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility."
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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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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
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A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for…
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives,…
— Joshua Foer
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We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
— Carlos Castaneda
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience -…
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Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a…
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
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