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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
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reality
sexing-the-cherry
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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2c5a04c
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Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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metaphor
sexing-the-cherry
jeanette-winterson
poet
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Jeanette Winterson |
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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woman
sexing-the-cherry
jeanette-winterson
pregnancy
child
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Jeanette Winterson |
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d273339
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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fate
sexing-the-cherry
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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55c56b5
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My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular place, you expected to see particular things. Sheep and hills, sea and fish; if there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs. Jones and talk about fishcakes. But most likely, she's do what most people do when confronted with something they don't understand. Panic.
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unexpected-things
oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.
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feminism
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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40652e5
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...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.
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existence
oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit
to-create
jeanette-winterson
creation
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Jeanette Winterson |
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8b3b44d
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Mrs. Winterson didn't want her body resurrected because she had never, ever loved it, not even for a single minute of a single day But although she believed in End Time, she felt that the bodily resurrection was unscientific. When I asked her about this she told me she had seen Pathe newsreels of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and she knew all about Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. She had lived through the war. Her brother had been in the air force, my dad had been in the army -- it was their life, not their history. She said that after the atomic bomb you couldn't believe in mass any more, it was all about energy. 'This life is all mass. When we go, we'll be all energy, that's all there is to it.' I have thought about this a lot over the years. She had understood something infinitely complex and absolutely simple. For her, in the Book of Revelation, the 'things of the world' that would pass away, 'heaven and earth rolled up like a scroll,' were demonstrations of the inevitable movement from mass to energy. Her uncle, her beloved mother's beloved brother, had been a scientist. She was an intelligent woman, and somewhere in the middle of the insane theology and the brutal politics, the flamboyant depression and the refusal of books, of knowledge, of life, she had watched the atomic bomb go off and realised that the true nature of the world is energy not mass. But she never understood that energy could have been her own true nature while she was alive. She did not need to be trapped in mass.
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jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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81d8926
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Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries.
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literature
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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57b6363
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I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
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literature
philosophy
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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210ee78
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Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.
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time
literature
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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9954a8e
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Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better than? Who are we better than? Examine this statement: Most people are better off. Financially? socially? educationally? medically? spiritually? I dare not ask if you are happy? Are you happy?
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literature
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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477bbf3
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But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?
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literature
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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d0c876e
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What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself?
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literature
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |
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6858225
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What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events? How much of recollection is invention? Whose invention?
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literature
jeanette-winterson
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Jeanette Winterson |