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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e834c22 | I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| b6e2050 | There's a planet,' said Spike, 'made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is its watery equivalent. There are no seas because there is no land. There are no rivers because there are no banks. There is no thirst because there is no dry. 'The planet is like a bowl of water except that there is no bowl. It hangs in space as a drop of water hangs from a leaf, except that there is no leaf. It cannot exist, and yet it does. I tel.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fd5f297 | Why do humans need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4891efa | You were loved then and you are loved now. Isn't that enough? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 55d56f1 | Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 93f23b1 | We gamble with the thought of winning. But it's the thought of what we might lose that excites us. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c1eb745 | There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss. | loss | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 3074d60 | My usual confessional is a straight Macallan but not before 5 o'clock. Perhaps that's why I try and have my crises in the evening. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 429e5af | Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants. | end fiction life reading stories | Jeanette Winterson | |
| c4dcafd | History is a madman's museum. | history museums objects | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 12ac5da | Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive." | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4df7982 | She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 25a5c19 | I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 37f9cf6 | Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions? | literature written-on-the-body | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 5a5b0f9 | Reading is where the wild things are. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a23fdba | I am always wondering about love. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 73b4364 | There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| b7c8a2a | This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 445e53e | I have come so far so fast that I haven't had time to ask whether or not this is where I want to be | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| dcdf349 | There was an ending - there always is - but the story went on past the ending - it always does. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8ada054 | I don't expect to be happy. I don't imagine that I will find love, whatever that means, or that if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7b2bd81 | You can change everything about yourself - your name, your home, your skin color, your gender, even your parents, your private history - but you can't change the time you were born in, or what it is you will have to live through. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 02046e5 | What's left? Romance. Love's counterfeit free of charge to all. Fall into my arms and the world with its sorrows will shrink up into a tinsel ball. This is the favorite antidote to the cold robot life of faraway perils and nearby apathy. Apathy. From the Greek A Pathos. Want of feeling. But, don't we know, only find the right boy, only find the right girl, and the feeling will be yours. My colleagues tell me I need just such a remedy. Burie.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 06c8502 | And I notice too often that the most unfeeling of people relieve their shuttered hearts by cooing over babies, who when grown , will be the same people exploited or ignored. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 35ac4a9 | Q: How do you fall in love? | jump love planet | Jeanette Winterson | |
| d2c94d5 | I can change the story. I am the story. | storytelling | Jeanette Winterson | |
| afdecfc | When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming. | femininity language masculinity sex words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 3c7370d | I came to this city to escape. | escape | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 904e490 | I was never bored except in the company of others. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 197e159 | We are human and vulnerable, whatever our individual situation: The moon looks on them all The Healers and the brilliant talkers The eccentrics and the silent walkers The dumpy and the tall. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 0dd9a45 | I couldn't for the life of me figure out how long a person had to live, or how good she had to be, to get her hands on some treasure. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| b6343b5 | My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| b4c1d85 | Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro, Arkansas; now imagine they were black girls from poor families who lived instead in Chicago, New Haven, Newark, Philadelphia, or Providence. Can you picture the national debate, the headlines, the hand-wringing? There is no doubt we'd be having a national debate about in.. | Michael S. Kimmel | ||
| b478012 | Coge un cuenco grande, dije. Llenalo con medidas iguales de hechos, fantasias, historia, mitologia, ciencia, supersticion, logica y locura. Oscurece la mezcla con lagrimas amargas, aclarala con carcajadas, viertele tres mil anos de civilizacion, grita kan pei, que significa "copa seca", y bebela hasta las heces." Propocio me clavo los ojos. "?Y sere sabio?", pregunto. "Mejor que eso", le respondi. "Seras chino." | Barry Hughart | ||
| 6f75fe0 | To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned. | barry-hughart li-kao master-li-and-number-ten-ox perfection story-of-the-stone wisdom | Barry Hughart | |
| c8d3d48 | I have decided that the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 9ba05e7 | A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 899fdbc | the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 2d2cd59 | Key Rabbit, allow me to bore you with a comparison of your wife and a beautiful woman," I said. "In the morning a beauty must lie in bed for three or four hours gathering strength for another mighty battle with Nature. Then, after being bathed and toweled by her maids, she loosens her hair in the Cascade of Teasing Willows Style, paints her eyebrows in the Distant Mountain Range Style, anoints herself with the Nine Bends of the River Diving.. | beauty-queens humor | Barry Hughart | |
| cb4a6e5 | Just remember all the good lies have an element of truth to them. | John J. Davis | ||
| f83fbf5 | solo los autenticos perezosos son capaces de hacer inventos para ahorrar trabajo. | inventos perezosos trabajo | Günter Grass | |
| 8bcf47c | Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence. | Günter Grass | ||
| ca2629f | there is no such thing as a parttime partisan. Real partisans are partisans always and as long as they live. They put fallen governments back in power and overthrow governments that have just been put in power with the help of partisans. Mr Matzerath contended - and his thesis struck me as perfectly plausible - that among all those who go in for politics your incorrigible partisan, who undermines what he has just set up, is closest to the a.. | Günter Grass | ||
| ed4a391 | I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery. | Günter Grass |