Jeanette Winterson quotes - page 11

I'm not a quitter. (Jeanette Winterson)
You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play. View quote
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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. View quote
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Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future. View quote
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Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return. View quote
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We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling. View quote
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As your lover describes you, so you are. View quote
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Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world. View quote
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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body. View quote
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. View quote
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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)
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed. View quote
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The secret of the world is this the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you have found what you really want inside yourself. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star rather it will guide you to where you want to go. It's a reference point, not an end in itself, even though you seem to be following it. So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. The end of all your exploring will be to cease from exploration and know the place for the first time. View quote
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The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich. View quote
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Memory loss is one way of coping with damage. View quote
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If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found. View quote
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Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world. View quote
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I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands. View quote
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What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? View quote
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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. View quote
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We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night? (Jeanette Winterson)
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. View quote
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Slightest accidents open up new worlds. View quote
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What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate. View quote
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Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one. View quote
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