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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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Jeanette Winterson quote: "Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth."
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist..."
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "No emotion is the final one."
No emotion is the final one. Jeanette Winterson
Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child. Jeanette Winterson
The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own..."
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to..."
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place. Jeanette Winterson
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things. There is only the present and nothing to remember. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I think people deceive themselves about themselves,..."
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without..."
Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear."
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Somewhere between fear and sex passion is."
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. Jeanette Winterson
I tried to build an igloo out of orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People..."
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet..."
The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language. Jeanette Winterson

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