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“Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.”

Quote by Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is a renowned British author known for her distinctive literary style and profound social commentary. Her works span a wide range of themes, including novels, essays, and poetry. Winterson's novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' is a story about growth, faith, and sexuality that has received widespread acclaim. more

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.”

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“The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

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

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.”

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“We are all historians in our small way.”

Book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?”

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Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

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Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

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