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The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure and positive.


Jeanette Coron

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JEANETTE WINTERSON The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON History is a madman's museum.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I kissed her and forgot death.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Love is an intervention.
Why do we not choose it?” (205)
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.
I was up to my chin when the sho...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Loneliness isn’t about being by yourself. That’s fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. L...
JEANETTE WINTERSON …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
JEANETTE WINTERSON