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Feeling. I didn't want to feel.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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I did upset the children. Not intentionally, but effectively.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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I want to touch you.' 'And if you did touch me, what then?' 'I would find a language of beginning.
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lovers
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Jeanette Winterson |
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fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Tengo la teoria de que, cada vez que decides algo importante, la parte de ti que dejas atras continua la otra vida que podrias haber vivido
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also has to feel language, to know it sweat and dry. The writer finds the words are visceral, and when she can eat them, wear them, and enter them like tunnels she discovers the alleged separation be..
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writing-process
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It is going dark. There are bombs exploding. Alice is losing patience. She throws down the map and shouts at Gertrude: 'THIS IS THE WRONG ROAD.' Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it.
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La verdadera Oscuridad es mas densa y mas silenciosa; llena el espacio que hay entre la chaqueta y el corazon. Se mete en los ojos. Cuando estoy fuera por la noche, no son los cuchillos lo que me da miedo, sino la Oscuridad. Tu que caminas tan alegremente, silbando, detente cinco minutos. Detente en la Oscuridad en un campo o en un sendero. Entonces te daras cuenta de que tu presencia es solo tolerada. La Oscuridad solo te permite dar un pa..
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Jeanette Winterson |
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I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.
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There are different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. She burnt a lot more than the letters that night in the backyard. I don't think she knew. In her head she was still queen, but not my queen any more, not the White Queen any more. Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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If you do wrestle with it and find the spring of its opening it will be a place to rest in all the days of your life.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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In my country there are no gods left. The Romans have driven them out. There are some who say that they have hidden themselves in the mountains, but I do not believe it. Three nights I have been on the mountains seeking them everywhere. I did not find them. And at last I called them by their names, and they did not come. I think they are dead.
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sci
sci-fi-romance
the-stone-gods
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It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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If the demons lived anywhere it was here.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Credeam ca vrea sa calatoreasca, dar imi spune adevaruri pe care le stiu deja, ca nu e nevoie sa plece de pe insula ca sa vada lumea, ca are destule mari si orase in minte. Daca e asa, daca toti le avem, atunci poate ca lumea aceasta, luna si stelele sunt si ele plasmuiri ale mintii, insa ale unei minti cu o deschidere mai larga decat a noastra. Chiar daca cineva ma gandeste, sunt liber sa fac ce vreau. Nu poate fi precum sahul universul ac..
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traveling
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De ce sa scap? De prezent? Da, de acest prim-plan care-mi ascunde ce se intampla in perspectiva. Daca am spirit sau suflet, spuneti-i cum vreti, nu e unul singur, ci multiplu. Nu se poate multumi cu limitarea, el vrea spatiu. Poate sa locuiasca in numeroase trupuri schimbatoare, intrate in putrefactie, din viitor sau din trecut. (...) Otravita sau nu, mercurul ma face sa gandesc astfel. Daca-i dati drumul, va tremura in clone pe toata podea..
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mercury
soul
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'. It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'.
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shopping
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Witchery popery popery witchery - all the same thing.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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The dark forest looked on fire. The trees were lit up like funeral pyres. She thought she saw bodies strapped to the trees, burning, burning, burning.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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En de tijd die zo gestaag en zo zeker voorbijgaat slaat voorbij de klokken op hol. Het kost zo weinig tijd om een leven te veranderen en het kost een heel leven om die verandering te begrijpen.
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time
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Jeanette Winterson |
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It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life.
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novel
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what. She was in the white corner and that was that. She hung out the largest sheets on the windiest days. She wanted the Mormons to knock on the door. At election time in a Labour mill town she put a picture of the Conservative candidate in the window. She had never heard of mixed feelings..
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Jeanette Winterson |
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You can't make sense of your passion for life in the face of death, you can only give up your passion. Only then can you begin to survive.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little men in gloves removing it all. "They're taking it away," I said. "Where to?" she said. "It just gets moved around dearie, that's all."
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trash
garbage
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I love the natural world and I never ceased to see it. The beauty of the trees and fields, of hills and streams, of the changing colours, of the small creatures so busy and occupied. My long hours walking or sitting in the field with my back against the wall, watching the clouds and the weather, allowed me some steadiness. It was because I knew all this would be there when I was not that I thought I could go. The world was beautiful. I was ..
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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First there is the forest and inside the forest the clearing and inside the clearing the cabin and inside the cabin the mother and inside the mother the child and inside the child the mountain.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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The true nature of the world is energy not mass.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But ..
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin sized world?
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love
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Jeanette Winterson |
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The past is magnetic. It draws us in.
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past
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Jeanette Winterson |
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How else could it be with such consuming hair?
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe anyone loves you for yourself. I never believed that my parents loved me. I tried to love them but it didn't work. It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving. I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and ..
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loss
family
love
unconditional-love
belonging
being-yourself
fulfilment
authenticity
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.
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love
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Jeanette Winterson |
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If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me.
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universe
time
observe
movement
physics
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Jeanette Winterson |
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When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out.
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place...not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.
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Jeanette Winterson |