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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. Jeanette Winterson
I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay..."
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. Jeanette Winterson
How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floot is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange? Jeanette Winterson
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Life was a pre-death experience."
Life was a pre-death experience. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life..."
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You..."
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing...."
Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries. Jeanette Winterson
Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet. Jeanette Winterson
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why... Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Passion out of passion's obstacles."
Passion out of passion's obstacles. Jeanette Winterson
I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don’t think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don’t even know if God exists, but I do know if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what..."
If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found. Jeanette Winterson
No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days. Jeanette Winterson

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