Doing it this way is not going to have a diverse committee. It's going to be lopsided.
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DEYTH BANGER More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN I'm not going to say it could never be that way. But I don't think (Woods) is quite there right now.
LEE JANZEN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It would not be appropriate to comment while the House Committee on Government Reform is doing its w...
ARN TELLEM The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER This game, with its twists and turns, could have gone either way. This is the way the series is goin...
MIKE SCIOSCIA To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my...
JOANNA GOING I'm always looking for what there is to see that's weird and wonderful and off the beaten pa...
JOANNA GOING I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'
JOANNA GOING When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and t...
JOANNA GOING To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can...
JOANNA GOING Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Guarding Shaq is not a one-man job. It's going to be by committee.
JASON COLLINS Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR You're not going to save the world this way. People are doing it at their discretion.
DAN KAMMEN I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are...
THOMAS S. MONSON The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ...
L. LIONEL KENDRICK The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
DOUGLAS WOOD What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not...
ELEANOR H. PORTER Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Many people have asked me, 'How do you make a single life a happy one? My answer is, 'Create the bes...
KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our m...
KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS Vail is a melting pot. In any community this diverse, there's going to to be bigotry, and there's bi...
JOSH LAUTENBERG The only thing that's going to be fatal to this nomination is how she performs before the committee.
CHARLES E. GRASSLEY We think there are just too many open switches on this right now for us to go in and do something th...
BOB SUTOR I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN If he's in the this sport, he's going to be up front. He's going to be a guy you have to beat. That'...
KASEY KAHNE The more permanent voices you have, the better the committee is going to be and the better we are go...
SPENCER SCHARFF It really is good. It was so lopsided with them in the conference. It's tough going into the confere...
SCOTT WALKINSHAW It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Still, it's going to be an extremely diverse fall,
HOWARD SHERMAN This is a real commitment, and we are going to do this for a substantial amount of time. I'm not goi...
STEVE CAPUS I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.
HANNAH TOINTON Certainly when you have an investigation going on like that, for the governor to have to be involved...
JOE GERSHTENSON As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'...
DENNIS NORTHCUTT Either it was going to find its way to the public or it was going to be the ultimate home movie.
BARRY REBO I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going t...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I really believe that before its over, its not going be a cruise missile or a bomber that is going t...
DONALD RUMSFELD Syria is going to be very much encouraged. It will see it as a way of enhancing its own position.
WALID KAZZIHA This ball club is a lot better than last year. There's no way we're going to keep doing this.
JOSE VIDRO This is not going anywhere, ... This is not going to be settled.
GARY CHAISON This slate is not going to be the new broom to sweep clean. There's no indication that Boehner and B...
CELIA WEXLER You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husban...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterb...
JUNIOR SEAU It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Music is an expression of your experiences, but it can't be an expression in a way that people can't...
LANCE BENNETT Music is an expression of your experiences, but it can't be an expression in a way that people can't...
LANCE BENNETT It astounds me in a way, and I don't mean that in a patronizing way. Everyone is going to make the...
RANDY WOLF Police are trying to help. They're doing what they have to do. But this is not going to stop.
CRISTINA CAMACHO The risk assessment committee is not saying that he is going to forcibly assault someone.
DERIK ZIMMEL We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at lo...
BOB KRABBE We're not going to hide that PML is a problem with this drug. But we're also not going to hide its s...
BURT ADELMAN Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing abo...
MARILYN MANSON For a small school, we're doing very well. But we're going to have a tough time after this year. ......
EARL JOHNSON I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald...
JEANETTE MACDONALD We are not counting as this committee that we're going to get a windfall of money. What we don't wan...
ASSEMBLYMAN GREENWALD We are not counting as this committee that we're going to get a windfall of money. What we don't wan...
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD We're not going to let it become a psychological thing. Our team is good enough to beat teams in thi...
CHARLES BAKER I think its kind of going to be a pain. It's not going to be worth it for half the people on campus.
GEORGE KENNEDY Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA We want everyone to know that we're not going to exclude anyone. We want a diverse school.
LUANNE PHILLIPS Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA This is the way it?s going to be every game. I told the guys to embrace it, not fight it, then go ou...
PAT FLANNERY You're going to be coached to be a pro. You're going to be pushed to where you may not even know you...
DAN DAKICH This is not going to be easy folks, it's not going to be fast. Recovery is a slow, methodical proces...
DAVID PAULISON Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN This is for the folks who are doing a good to excellent job. The program is going to be very competi...
DANA HOLLAND To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain p...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER The name never came up. It's bizarre...Is Shell going to compete with itself, or is this a way of no...
WILF GOBERT I know its going to be an emotional time for me. I know I'm going to be shedding a tear or two. No o...
TONI EDWARDS I'm always going to love my father.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I'm living my life the way I want it...living it with NO regrets. I'm not sorry for anything I've do...
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JEANETTE WOODS When we have students having problems constantly, those problems need to be addressed.
JEANETTE WOODS I wish we were being able to put counselors in the schools rather than policemen.
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JEANETTE WOODS I don't see how it's equitable. We're putting more money into schools already completed when other s...
JEANETTE WOODS A lot of people are used to watching it on TV.
JEANETTE WOODS He's the top man, and whatever the people under him do, he is ultimately responsible.
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JEANETTE WOODS It's just really upsetting the public. It doesn't give the public a process to vent, if they have th...
JEANETTE WOODS However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so...
JEANETTE WINTERSON In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.
JEANETTE CORON I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
JEANETTE WINTERSON What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is tru...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What you risk reveals what you value.
JEANETTE WINTERSON To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She was a monster, but she was my monster.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
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JEANETTE LEBLANC To know the hope and the struggle and the stay still and the run away and the come here and the push...
JEANETTE LEBLANC The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeo...
JEANETTE MACDONALD There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven n...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking...
JEANETTE WINTERSON the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is f...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Do not try quiet my voice.
Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl.
I am inhabi...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans ...
JEANETTE DESOR Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings c...
JEANETTE LEBLANC We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I woul...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be wort...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, see...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Been painting ceramics for years, I love it. I am waiting until I finish this project so that I can ...
JEANETTE BROWN It's like raping Alice in Wonderland.
JEANETTE WILLIAMS I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes.
JEANETTE CORON 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 I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.
JEANETTE WINTERSON The free man never thinks of escape.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together....
JEANETTE WINTERSON I don't want the Thatcher years back, but I don't want the Brown-Prescott years either. I am prepare...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was s...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame hea...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is...
JEANETTE WINTERSON To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've work...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald...
JEANETTE MACDONALD But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is f...
JEANETTE WINTERSON To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the g...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to clai...
JEANETTE LEBLANC As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting,...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the same as being happy--which I think ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.
JEANETTE MACDONALD I must have had rocks in my head.
JEANETTE MACDONALD I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going t...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deep...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love ...
JEANETTE MACDONALD You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love w...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silen...
JEANETTE WINTERSON A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, med...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness whe...
JEANETTE WINTERSON This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped him...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't kno...
JEANETTE WINTERSON They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, n...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measu...
JEANETTE WINTERSON & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R. If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear b...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?
JEANETTE WINTERSON There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy.
But dar...
JEANETTE LEBLANC It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean s...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that.
There's no effort which...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You hold the collective story of all women in your body. The muscle memory of generations past. This...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Don't lose a treasure while looking for trash.
JEANETTE CORON I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the te...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I know the hard ground and the taste of the salt water I’m made of and the way even getting out of...
JEANETTE LEBLANC When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mat...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history ma...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Those who are determined to succeed are those who eventually succeed.
JEANETTE CORON So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or tha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Out there somewhere there is a love who will never dream of calling you too much. Who speaks, like y...
JEANETTE LEBLANC You are not too much. You have never been too much. You will never be too much. The very idea is pre...
JEANETTE LEBLANC In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they could...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we...
JEANETTE WINTERSON With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You will find that governments in China, Myanmar and Vietnam have a much higher level of control ove...
JEANETTE CHAN The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present...
JEANETTE WINTERSON ...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that eve...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You had once asked me if I was afraid of death.
I said I was afraid of not living.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom ...
JEANETTE MACDONALD Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I d...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Q: How do you fall in love?
You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of con...
JEANETTE WINTERSON My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
JEANETTE WINTERSON One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
JEANETTE WINTERSON What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Naked is the best disguise.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
JEANETTE WINTERSON My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
JEANETTE WINTERSON do it from the heart or not at all.
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is her...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up m...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.
JEANETTE CORON When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON I'm not a quitter.
JEANETTE WINTERSON The wider we read the freer we become.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another.
JEANETTE WINTERSON That thing you’re afraid of? That label you shy away from? That word that seems too bold? That aud...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Don't you think it's strange that life, described
as so rich and full, a camel-trail of advent...
JEANETTE WINTERSON A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new ...
JEANETTE MICHELLE Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...
History is a collection of found objects washed up ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hangi...
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...
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