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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language."
I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and..."
Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "There are so many separate selves; no one who writes..."
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Every new beginning prompts a return."
Every new beginning prompts a return. Jeanette Winterson
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else..."
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. Jeanette Winterson
Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all..."
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something..."
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. Jeanette Winterson
We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and..."
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "The free man never thinks of escape."
The free man never thinks of escape. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you..."
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. Jeanette Winterson

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