“Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.”
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Famous Jeanette Winterson Quotes
“Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.”
“Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.”
Source: The Stone Gods
Source: Written On The Body
“Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.”
“I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.”
“How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.”
“Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.”
Source: Written On The Body
Source: Written On The Body
Source: The Passion
“History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.”
“It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.”
“Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.”
“Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.”
“I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.”
“Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.”
“the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.”
“Very often history is a means of denying the past.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit