"In the antiseptic world we try to purge……" — Jeanette Winterson
"In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder."
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Jeanette Winterson
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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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