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Jeanette Winterson quotes: I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: And what is memory but a rope slung across time? And what is memory but a rope slung across time?
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in. When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I'm not a quitter. I'm not a quitter.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing. Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
Jeanette Winterson quotes: You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Shakespeare," he thought as he scribbled away. "Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived. Shakespeare," he thought as he scribbled away. "Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: There are voices and they must be heard. There are voices and they must be heard.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: moss that is concentrating on being green. moss that is concentrating on being green.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live. The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore. If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land. Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I said, "If we were good always would we be happy always?""No," said Grandmother."Then I shall be bad. I said, "If we were good always would we be happy always?"
"No," said Grandmother.
"Then I shall be bad.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready for trouble, fearing it. For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready for trouble, fearing it.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: What you fuck is much more important than how you write. What you fuck is much more important than how you write.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning. I want to touch you.'
'And if you did touch me, what then?'
'I would find a language of beginning.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest. It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Life is so simple when you're just doing your job. Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: do it from the heart or not at all. do it from the heart or not at all.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere. And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art. The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Bridges join but they also separate. Bridges join but they also separate.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I'm telling you stories. Trust me. I'm telling you stories. Trust me.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I was hungry, but I was nervous too. You were so new and I didn't want to frighten you away. I didn't want to frighten myself away. I was hungry, but I was nervous too. You were so new and I didn't want to frighten you away. I didn't want to frighten myself away.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed. Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I. I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I did upset the children. Not intentionally, but effectively. I did upset the children. Not intentionally, but effectively.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I discover that grief means living with someone who is not there. I discover that grief means living with someone who is not there.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge. You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives. Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it. I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: It is always a mistake to argue with a librarian. It is always a mistake to argue with a librarian.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: This is the city of disguises. This is the city of disguises.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl. Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: travelling the world and the seven seas travelling the world and the seven seas
Jeanette Winterson quotes: She was a monster, but she was my monster. She was a monster, but she was my monster.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay. Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries. History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off. Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost. I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Don't mix your heart with your liver. Don't mix your heart with your liver.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame? Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I would eat my way into perdition to taste you. I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: She was night-time and words were the dream. She was night-time and words were the dream.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens. The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously. There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time. Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Trust me, I'm telling you stories ... I can change the story. I am the story. Trust me, I'm telling you stories ... I can change the story. I am the story.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift. What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I can change the story. I am the story. I can change the story. I am the story.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine. I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all. I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position. Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: The hard-bound space hides the vulnerable self. The hard-bound space hides the vulnerable self.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120) It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120)
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air. I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out. When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I love her.""Then you do not love the Lord.""Yes, I love both of them.""You cannot." "I do. I love her."
"Then you do not love the Lord."
"Yes, I love both of them."
"You cannot."
"I do.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: He scarred her arm ... but she did not care because she loved him and she knew that love leaves a wound that leaves a scar. He scarred her arm ... but she did not care because she loved him and she knew that love leaves a wound that leaves a scar.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist. It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I don't care about the facts, Domino, I care about how I feel. How I feel will change, I want to remember that. I don't care about the facts, Domino, I care about how I feel. How I feel will change, I want to remember that.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: We gamble with the thought of winning. But it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us. We gamble with the thought of winning. But it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself. I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: It is necessary to distinguish the chalk circle from the stone wall. It is necessary to distinguish the chalk circle from the stone wall.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was. Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: The trouble with books is that you don't know what's in them 'till is too late The trouble with books is that you don't know what's in them 'till is too late
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display. Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I'm not club-able, you see. I don't like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I'd hate to join anything, however loosely. I'm not club-able, you see. I don't like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I'd hate to join anything, however loosely.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: My mother's eyes were like cold stars. She belonged in a different sky. My mother's eyes were like cold stars. She belonged in a different sky.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light. Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
Jeanette Winterson quotes: I love life. Life is too precious to me not to live it fully. I love life. Life is too precious to me not to live it fully.

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