Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

Sea

Sea Voyage

Voyages

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

Language

Poet

World

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…there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Kind

Two

Writing

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…to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein’s E=MC squared

Fall

Lying

Thinking

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..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Evil

Nature Of Evil

True Nature

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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they’re doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Imagination

Medicine

Reality

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A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

Bridges

Metaphor

Possibility

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A character has a distinctive voice – you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you’re out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it’s the character speaking and not you.

Able

Character

Voice

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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn’t it?

Games

Love Is

Play

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A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.

Homosexual

Rhinoceros

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