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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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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
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To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
Jeanette Winterson
Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
Jeanette Winterson
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
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
Jeanette Winterson
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread rarely is it only a door.
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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.
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In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.
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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
Jeanette Winterson
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
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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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There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.
Jeanette Winterson
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
Jeanette Winterson
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Jeanette Winterson
Life was a pre-death experience.
Jeanette Winterson
