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Jeanette Inspirational Quotes (295)

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We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.
Jeanette Winterson
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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
Jeanette Winterson
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
Jeanette Winterson
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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
Jeanette Winterson
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Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
Jeanette Winterson
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
Jeanette Winterson
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It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.
Jeanette Lee
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There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.
Jeanette Winterson
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I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
Jeanette Winterson
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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
Jeanette Winterson
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Some people are happy when they are at the sea I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.
Jeanette Winterson
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People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
Jeanette Winterson
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I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.
Jeanette Winterson
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Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
Jeanette Winterson
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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
Jeanette Winterson
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing I didn't think I had to.
Jeanette Winterson
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.
Jeanette Winterson
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Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
Jeanette Winterson
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It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.
Jeanette Winterson
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Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
Jeanette Winterson
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Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
Jeanette Winterson
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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
Jeanette Winterson
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We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
Jeanette Winterson
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Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
Jeanette Winterson
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