Jeanette Winterson Quote

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.


Sexing the Cherry (1989)


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.

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.