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Jeanette Winterson

I have set off and found that ...

I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world.

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Jeanette Winterson

You play, you win, you play, y...

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.

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Jeanette Winterson

do it from the heart or not at...

do it from the heart or not at all.

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Jeanette Winterson

It's not the one thing nor the...

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

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Jeanette Winterson

In a vacuum all photons travel...

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 they are happy. They very r

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Jeanette Winterson

The body can endure compromise...

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

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Jeanette Winterson

What it means to be human is t...

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

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Jeanette Winterson

The rebellion of art is a dail...

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

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Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes we forget that if we...

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

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Jeanette Winterson

Journalism encourages haste .....

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

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Jeanette Winterson

Every believer is an anarchist...

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

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Jeanette Winterson

The Bible writers didn't care ...

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

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Jeanette Winterson

the power of a text is not tim...

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

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Jeanette Winterson

Working-class families in the ...

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

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Jeanette Winterson

Even death after a long illnes...

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

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Jeanette Winterson

unhappy families are conspirac...

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

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Jeanette Winterson

I've never been tempted by God...

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

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Jeanette Winterson

Very often history is a means ...

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

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Jeanette Winterson

Memoir ... satisfies our need ...

Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

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Jeanette Winterson

Myths hook and bind the mind b...

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

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