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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't. Jeanette Winterson
I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "You are a pool of clear water where the light plays"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be..."
You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?"
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? Jeanette Winterson
It seems to me that being the right size for your world-- and knowing that both you and your world are not by any means fixed dimensions-- is a valuable clue to learning how to live. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity,..."
The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Words are the part of silence that can be spoken."
Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did,..."
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. Jeanette Winterson
All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not..."
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. Jeanette Winterson
It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. Jeanette Winterson
...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the..."
I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. Jeanette Winterson
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm. Jeanette Winterson

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