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Jeanette Inspirational Quotes (295)

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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
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Reading is where the wild things are.
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.
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Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
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I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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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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Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.
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What I want does exist if I dare to find it.
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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations there are only sandbanks and shipwreck then another boat, another tide.
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Why is the measure of love loss?
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
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I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
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A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.
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I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
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And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
Jeanette Winterson
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