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Jeanette Inspirational Quotes (295)

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In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.
Jeanette Winterson
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson
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How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?
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Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
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We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette Winterson
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Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
Jeanette Winterson
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
Jeanette Winterson
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Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
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In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.
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Names are still magic even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.
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..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
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Realism and art cannot live together.
Jeanette Lee
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
Jeanette Winterson
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We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
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Their throats were bare for God.
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It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
Jeanette Winterson
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Jeanette Winterson
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When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.
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I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
Jeanette Winterson
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They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
Jeanette Winterson
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