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Jeanette Inspirational Quotes (295)

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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
Jeanette Winterson
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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
Jeanette Winterson
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't want to conquer you I just want to climb you.
Jeanette Winterson
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This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
Jeanette Winterson
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
Jeanette Winterson
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I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
Jeanette Winterson
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
Jeanette Winterson
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
Jeanette Winterson
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I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
Jeanette Winterson
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We are all historians in our small way.
Jeanette Winterson
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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Jeanette Winterson
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I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
Jeanette Winterson
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You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.
Jeanette Winterson
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I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson
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We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.
Jeanette Winterson
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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
Jeanette Winterson
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
Jeanette Winterson
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In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.
Jeanette Winter
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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
Jeanette Winterson
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Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.
Jeanette Winterson
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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
Jeanette MacDonald
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You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
Jeanette Winterson
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