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Jeanette Inspirational Quotes (295)

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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
Jeanette Winterson
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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
Jeanette Winterson
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No emotion is the final one.
Jeanette Winterson
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
Jeanette Winterson
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Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.
Jeanette Lee
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I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.
Jeanette Winterson
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Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value you don't have to go along with any of this you can think for yourself.
Jeanette Winterson
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
Jeanette Winterson
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Jeanette Winterson
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Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot writers frame their world.
Jeanette
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Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.
Jeanette Lee
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I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
Jeanette Winterson
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Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.
Jeanette Winterson
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If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.
Jeanette Winterson
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
Jeanette Winterson
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She was a monster, but she was my monster.
Jeanette Winterson
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She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
Jeanette Winterson
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
Jeanette Winterson
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
Jeanette Winterson
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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread rarely is it only a door.
Jeanette Winterson
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That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
Jeanette Winterson
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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Jeanette Winterson
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I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
Jeanette Winterson
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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
Jeanette Winterson
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