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Even the most solid of things,...

Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.

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Of course that is not the whol...

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Love demands expression. It wi...

Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

There is a certain seductivene...

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Everyone who tells a story tel...

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Every moment you steal from th...

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Slightest accidents open up ne...

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

It's only a story, you say. So...

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

I want someone who is fierce a...

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Tell me a story, Pew. What kin...

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There's no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

I say I'm in love with her. Wh...

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

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Naked I came into the world, b...

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Turn up for work. Discipline a...

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

The probability of separate wo...

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Not much touches us, but we lo...

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

There is no discovery without ...

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Now that physics is proving th...

Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusi

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Cheating is easy. There's no s...

Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

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Destiny is a worrying concept....

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

Unhappiness is selfish, grief ...

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

Jeanette Winterson 632 quotes

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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