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Art is a foreign city, and we...

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

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And if I say to you that I am...

And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued...

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What would it have meant to b...

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

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For me, the most painful thin...

For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Two hundred miles from the su...

Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

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When people looked at him the...

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

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Marriage is the flimsiest wea...

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

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I don't see myself as some ki...

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

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They believed that if a mouse...

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

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I know I've had an unusual be...

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

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Reading things that are relev...

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

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Our own front door can be a w...

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

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your morse code interferes wi...

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.

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In the heat of her hands I th...

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

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I need to be able to hear wha...

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

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We're living in a homogenized...

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

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Organized religion is a very ...

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

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When pieces of work speak to ...

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

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I will do whatever I have to ...

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

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As a writer, if you're prepar...

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....