Quotes about Jeanette winterson

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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like — Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. — Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creati — Jeanette Winterson
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox — that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? — Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
Perhaps all romance is like that — not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life.
Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. — Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned — it was a conspiracy of ignorance.
Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad — it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the thin — Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory? — Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
What makes up a life — events or the recollection of events?How much of recollection is invention?Whose invention?
Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your — Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a persp — Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
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, Art and Lies
Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. T — Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower de — Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions? — Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them. — Jeanette Winterson
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. — Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry