"The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I……" — Jeanette Winterson
"The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on."
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Jeanette Winterson
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419 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
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