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Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself."

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted."

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.




Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you."

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable."

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.




Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life."

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them."

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all."

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.




Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I would eat my way into perdition to taste you."

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation."

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world."

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had."

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.




Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown."

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea."

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie."

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear."

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved."

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires."

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen."

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive."

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.




Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment."

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find."

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places."

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "What you risk reveals what you value."

What you risk reveals what you value.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed."

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it."

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it."

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now."

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me."

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Do it from the heart or not at all."

Do it from the heart or not at all.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect."

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Life is so simple when you're just doing your job."

Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision."

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that."

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil."

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



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value."

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "After every ''victory'' you have more enemies."

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close."

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice."

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.



Jeanette Winterson Quotes: "It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression."

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.