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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ The Powerbook

    In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way."
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time

    ...and what is memory but a rope slung across time?
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    I have a theory that every time you make an important decision, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ The Powerbook

    Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities, surface towards us, then sink away. Some we hook out, others we ignore, and as the pattern changes, so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time, which returns everything, changes everything."
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    I did upset the children. Not intentionally, but effectively."
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Feeling. I didn't want to feel.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    It is necessary to distinguish the chalk circle from the stone wall."
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93,000,000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her.
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    When I touch her, my fingers don't question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love."
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that?"
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    Whelks are strange and comforting.They have no notion of community life and they breed very quietly.But they have a strong sense of personal dignity.Even lying face down in a tray of vinegar there is something noble about a whelk.Which cannot be said for everybody.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy

    I argue that it is not Woolf's remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not a woolly blanket it is a sharp sword. , which is the most difficult of her works, is a strong-honed edge through the cloudiness most of us call life. It is uncomfortable to have the thick padded stuff ripped away. There is no warm blanket to be had out of Virginia Woolf; there is wind and sun and you naked. It is not remoteness of feeling in Woolf, it is excess; the unbearable quiver of nerves and the heart pounding. It is exposure.And it is exactness.
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