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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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Jeanette Winterson quote: "What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love..."
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? Jeanette Winterson
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every..."
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is..."
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Why is the measure of love loss?"
Why is the measure of love loss? Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as..."
What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to..."
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper..."
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it? (205)"
Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it? (205) Jeanette Winterson
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one."
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one. Jeanette Winterson
I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is. Jeanette Winterson
Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference. Jeanette Winterson
Travellers at least have a choice. Those who set sail know that things will not be the same as at home. Explorers are prepared. But for us, who travel along the blood vessels, who come to the cities of the interior by chance, there is no preparation. We who were fluent find life is a foreign language. Somewhere between the swamp and the mountains. Somewhere between fear and sex. Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse. Jeanette Winterson
I think that cadaver is only the ideal self run mad, and if the other life, the secret life, could be found and brought home, then a person might live in peace and have no need for God. After all, He has no need for us, being complete. Jeanette Winterson

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