"I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks." — Jeanette Winterson
"I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks."
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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 Cloaks Quotes
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one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
— Robert Byrd
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
— Willa Cather
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
— Margaret Cho
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.
— Unknown Author
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Shame is pride's cloak.
— William Blake
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
— Juvenal
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Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
— Bertrand Russell
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that…
— Thomas S. Monson
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