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Raising the tobacco tax will generate state revenue, save health care funds, reduce youth smoking and prevent unnecessary deaths. It?s critically important that we take this step to guard the health of our future generations.


Jeanette Schatz

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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