"We don't go to Shakespeare to find out……" — Jeanette Winterson
"We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now."
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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 Elizabethan Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era..
— James M. Barrie
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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the…
— Mark Rylance
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But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have…
— Geoffrey Rush
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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them…
— Timothy West
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How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and…
— Rosemary Verey
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is…
— James Fenton
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct…
— H P Lovecraft
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Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a…
— Terry Pratchett
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
— William Shakespeare
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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact…
— Virginia Woolf
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In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion…
— Diane Paulus
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy,…
— George Pierce Baker
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