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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books..."
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) Jeanette Winterson
Come again?' She asked. Yes tomorrow, under the sodium street lights, under the tick of the clock. Under my obligations, my history, my fears, this now. This fizzy, giddy all consuming now. I will not let time lie to me. I will not listen to dead voices or unborn pain. "What if?" Has no power against 'what if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.... Jeanette Winterson
The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble. spin the numbers, crack the code, but the door won't swing open. Babies are safes on time-delay. It takes years for the door to swing open, and even when it does, the best minds are undecided as to the value of the contents Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "to change something you do not understand is the true nature..."
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil. Jeanette Winterson
It's so crude' complained her mother, who believed in Good Taste the way Sunday worshipers believed in the Immaculate Conception. She wasn't quite sure what it was but she was sure it was important. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to..."
I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't..."
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. Jeanette Winterson
The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing. Jeanette Winterson
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book. Jeanette Winterson
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story...."
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Art saved me; it got me through my depression and..."
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Jeanette Winterson
Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That solves nothing I know, and I spent a lot of time understanding my own violence, which is not of the pussycat kind. There are people who could never commit murder; I am not one of those people. It's better to know it, better to know who you are, and what lies in you, and what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation. Jeanette Winterson
What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star. Jeanette Winterson

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