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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 279a7f0 | He liked city walking. He didn't want to have to go to that place called countryside to take a walk. He wanted to stuff his hands in his pockets, set his internal compass vaguely east or south and wander till he was tired enough to get the bus home. | walking wandering | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 2e784be | Yet not let each gay turn thy rapture move;For fools admire, but men of sense approve. | An Essay on Criticism | ||
| 0a28c2e | The Pope is often an embarrassment. Each Pope nurses his own foibles and follies, pet truths and pet hates, and all must be accommodated within the seamless seemingly unchanging whole of Catholic Truth. Often the Popes contradict one another, and even more often, they contradict the great masters they reanimate to support their own certainties. The theologians take it as a joke. They are interested in the power of the Church and her authori.. | hypocrisy pope power religion | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 0ff7d89 | The school song at Accrington High School for Girls was 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,' a terrible choice for an all-girls' school, but one that helped turn me into a feminist. Where were the famous women--indeed any women--and why weren't we praising them? I vowed to myself that I would be famous and that I would come back and be praised. | feminism men praise recognition women | Jeanette Winterson | |
| b8aceae | The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren't come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity. | life orbiting orbits planets | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 3c0c7de | In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croaking about another life I think I can see. | life smugness | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 73f4be2 | There is a sense of the human spirit as always existing. This makes our own death bearable. | creativity death existence life | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 9c72548 | But making the ugly hurt part human again is not an exercise for the well-meaning social worker in us. This is the most dangerous work you can do. It is like bomb disposal but you are the bomb. That's the problem--the awful thing is you. | healing life recovery redemption self-help | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 2ffabb6 | I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home. | decisions directions inevitability life personality | Jeanette Winterson | |
| bccf5b9 | She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park. | mothers mysteries relationships understanding | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 6858225 | What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events? How much of recollection is invention? Whose invention? | jeanette-winterson literature | Jeanette Winterson | |
| ea639a3 | Her favourite song was 'God Has Blotted Them Out,' which was meant to be about sins, but really was about anyone who had ever annoyed her, which was everyone. She just didn't like anyone and she just didn't like life. Life was a burden to be carried as far as the grave and then dumped. Life was a Vale of Tears. Life was a pre-death experience. | death god life misanthropy religion revenge vengeance | Jeanette Winterson | |
| e0367f4 | It was a dark gift but not a useless one. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5af0809 | She laughed. "What about your wings?" she said. "How can you forget those when the stumps are still deep in your shoulder-blades?" I didn't say anything. In the Bible only the angels have wings; the rest of us have to wait to be rescued." | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 84a9760 | My own father came out of the sea and went back that way... His splintered hull shored him long enough to drop anchor inside my mother. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 202a5b7 | The door had swung open. I had gone in. The room had no floor. I had fallen and fallen and fallen. But I was alive. And that night the cold stars made a constellation from the pieces of my broken mind. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f0264f5 | Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f3d0a8c | But as I try and understand how life works--and why some people cope better than others with adversity--I come back to something to do with saying yes to life, which is love of life, however inadequate, and love for the self, however found. Not in the me-first way that is the opposite of life and love, but with a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream... | coping happiness life love-of-life | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 53d280f | It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves. | miracles possibilities self-reliance transformation understanding | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 6dcb0e7 | She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late. | loneliness relationships solitude understanding | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 39a46ae | If the sun is shining, stand in it - yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass - they have to - because time passes. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0b9fc25 | It is the poet who goes further than any human scientist. The poet who with her dredging net must haul up difficult things and return them to the present. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8b03567 | Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 31c3275 | All time is eternally present and so all time is ours, There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7fb4612 | If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5217afe | My passion for her showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 64b0b06 | This is not a barren place. Villanelle, whose talent is to look at everything at least twice, taught me to find joy in the most unlikely places and still to be surprised by the obvious. She had a knack of raising your spirits just by saying, 'Look at that,' and that was always an ordinary treasure brought to life. She can even charm the fishwives. So I go from my room in the morning and make the journey to the garden very slowly, feeling t.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c3d109e | I will have red roses next year. A forest of red roses. On this rock? In this climate? I'm telling you stories. Trust me. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8b8c04b | Asla yalan soylemeyin. Icinizde hicbir sey kipirdamadiysa bir seyin sizi etkiledigini asla soylemeyin. Siz bir kitabi elinize alabilirsiniz ama bir kitap sizi odanin obur ucuna firlatabilir. Bir kitap sizi rahat koltugunuzdan alip deniz kenarindaki kayaliklara tasiyabilir. Bir kitap sizi kocanizdan, karinizdan, cocuklarinizdan, butun benliginizden ayirabilir. Omur boyu cektiginiz bir aciyi dindirebilir. Kitaplar kinetiktir ve her devasa guc.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| ff4dd89 | It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 20b7b09 | I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea. | love-issues people trust | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 455734e | Ti do un consiglio: quando sei giovane e ti capita di leggere qualcosa che non ti piace affatto, mettilo da parte e rileggilo tra tre anni dopo. Se ancora non ti piace, rileggilo dopo altri tre anni. E quando sei giovane - quando arrivi ai cinquant'anni come me - rileggerai il libro che ti e piaciuto in assoluto di meno. | booklover books inspirational leggere lettura | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 73fe79a | I libri sono per me una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, una casa, nel senso che, cosi come apri una porta, apri un libro e ci entri. | booklover inspirational | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 3d94832 | Mi piace il modo in cui i gatti amano stare un po' dentro e un po' fuori, per assecondare sia il loro lato domestico sia quello selvatico, e anch'io mi sento selvatica e domestica. Posso stare in casa, ma solo se la porta e aperta. | cat cats freedom gatti gatto housewarming libertà | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 20c7134 | All I am saying is that love is not exclusively human. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 1694e68 | Le chiesi perche non voleva libri in casa e lei rispose: "Il guaio di un libro e che scopri cosa contiene solo quando e troppo tardi." Io pensai: "Troppo tardi per cosa?" Cominciai a leggere di nascosto [...] ogni volta che aprivo le pagine di un libro mi chiedevo se questa volta sarebbe stato troppo tardi: avrei dovuto un sorso fatale che mi avrebbe trasformato per sempre." | booklover booklovers casa libri | Jeanette Winterson | |
| fcdc476 | Mia madre non voleva che i libri cadessero nelle mie mani. Non aveva previsto che io potessi cadere nei libri, che mi infilassi dentro di loro per stare al sicuro. | books letteratura libri libro scrittore scrittrice | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f91bd2b | Sanat siradisidir; alisilagelmis yontemle onu ehlilestirerek ya da yemleyerek kaliplara sokmaya calismak nafiledir. Kim hayvanat bahcesine gidip de aslani biraz olsun anlamis ki? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d320065 | Toplum kadinlari topal birakir ve onlari sakat yaratmis olan sanki Tanri, Doga ya da genetik faktorlermis gibi davranir. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 69edf8b | What you risk reveals what you value, | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fdfde81 | Just because you can't tell what it is, doesn't mean it's not what it is. | kids-say-the-darndest-things real-talk | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 767e386 | Jag talar inte om din bok nu, men se hur manga bocker som redan skrivits om Forintelsen. Till vilken nytta? Folk har inte blivit annorlunda... Dom kanske behover en ny Forintelse, en annu varre... | holocaust misantropi | Art Spiegelman | |
| 4b1183d | Well, I'm here to tell you: I've seen women passionately devoted to men who couldn't pile bricks, and whole families of slack-jawed nose pickers held together by "love," not to mention all those people who curl up at night with dogs that have gunk running out of their eyes, dogs who earlier peed where they were about to walk and spent ten minutes licking their own wormy butts." | Haven Kimmel | ||
| e7733e9 | I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp. Also | Haven Kimmel |