"She must find a boat and sail in……" — Jeanette Winterson
"She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it."
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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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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am…
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Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing…
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without…
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I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car,…
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Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no…
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive…
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die…
— Coco Chanel
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
— Woody Allen
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for…
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