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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes about life

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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Whelks are strange and comforting. They have no notion of community life and they breed very quietly. But they have a strong sense of personal dignity. Even lying face down in a tray of vinegar there is something noble about a whelk. Which cannot be said for everybody. Jeanette Winterson
When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling. Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. Jeanette Winterson
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I like to look at how people work together when they are put..."
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. Jeanette Winterson
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight. Jeanette Winterson
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Jeanette Winterson
I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make mistakes, make a mess, get it wrong. Read everything, and get out and be in life. Jeanette Winterson
Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy. Jeanette Winterson
A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. Jeanette Winterson
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. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not..."
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life. Jeanette Winterson
It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "The only selfish life is a timid one."
The only selfish life is a timid one. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I like to think the price I paid by being open about my..."
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped. Jeanette Winterson

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