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Jeanette Inspirational Quotes (295)

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Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.
Jeanette Jenkins
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I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
Jeanette Winterson
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It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
Jeanette Winterson
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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.
Jeanette Winterson
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It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.
Jeanette Winterson
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I have no idea what happens next.
Jeanette Winterson
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Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
Jeanette Winterson
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
Jeanette Winterson
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
Jeanette Winterson
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What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Jeanette Winterson
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
Jeanette Winterson
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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.
Jeanette Winterson
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
Jeanette Winterson
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I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.
Jeanette Winterson
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Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
Jeanette Winterson
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There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.
Jeanette Winterson
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Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
Jeanette Winterson
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The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
Jeanette Winterson
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.
Jeanette Winterson
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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Jeanette Winterson
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I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
Jeanette Winterson
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
Jeanette Winterson
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
Jeanette Winterson
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
Jeanette Winterson
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