Jeanette Winterson Quotes - Page 11

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• The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fear, World, Enough

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• Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Broken, Secret

  Jeanette Winterson (2005). “Weight”, p.46, Penguin Books India

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• The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Believe, Mind

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Stone Gods”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Faith, Heart, Government

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• To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Age, Body, Information

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Stone Gods”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Way, Taste, Pomegranates

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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

  Broken, Matter, Boxes

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• I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Library, Titles, Lists

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Years, Atoms

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Self, Differences

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• Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Circles

  Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

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• There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Growing Up, Book

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

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• I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Character, Confusion, Literature

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• The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, World, Probability

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• It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

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  Heart, Finals, May

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “The Passion”, p.145, Random House

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• We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Thinking, Mazes

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, www.abc.net.au. 2011.

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• Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Reflection, Self

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Oxford, Filled Up

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

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  Player, Today, Passing

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• Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fire, Dragons, Oxygen

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• I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Children, Men

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• This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified in this room. The sun hangs over the mantelpiece. I stretch out my hand and reach the corners of the world. The world is bundled up in this room. Beyond the door, where the river is, where the roads are, we shall be. We can take the world with us when we go and sling the sun under your arm. Hurry now, it's getting late. I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Wall, Moon

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