Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reality, Medicine, Imagination

• The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Reality, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reality, Psychosis, Trying

• Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Reality, Past

• People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Pain, Heart, Reality

  Jeanette Winterson (1985). “Oranges are Not the Only Fruit”

• I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Healing, Reality, Light

• Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Confidence, Reality, Usual

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reality, Years, Experience

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