Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Memories, Moving

• Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Animal, Past

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

• Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fighting, Animal, Flight

• With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Crazy, Animal, Elements

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