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Jeanette Inspirational Quotes (295)

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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't believe in happy endings.
Jeanette Winterson
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Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
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What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?
Jeanette Winterson
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Jeanette Winterson
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When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.
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I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
Jeanette Winterson
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
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You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.
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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
Jeanette Winterson
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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
Jeanette Winterson
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
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We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
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If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.
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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
Jeanette Winterson
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