"One day, tens of millions of years from……" — Jeanette Winterson
"One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find."
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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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