Jeanette Winterson Short Quotes

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

Jeanette Winterson
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

Jeanette Winterson
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

Jeanette Winterson
The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

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

Jeanette Winterson
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Jeanette Winterson
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

Jeanette Winterson
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Jeanette Winterson
…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Jeanette Winterson
I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

Jeanette Winterson
We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

Jeanette Winterson
Choice of subject, like choice of lover, is an intimate decision.

Jeanette Winterson
He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes.

Jeanette Winterson
No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

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I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Jeanette Winterson
There is no such thing as autobiography. There's only art and lies.

Jeanette Winterson
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

Jeanette Winterson
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

Jeanette Winterson
To change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Jeanette Winterson
He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator.

Jeanette Winterson
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

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If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

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Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

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

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For myself, I would rather live with sins of excess than sins of denial.

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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Jeanette Winterson
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

Jeanette Winterson
There are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Jeanette Winterson