Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, New Beginnings, Different

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.137, Canongate Books

• Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Boxing, Leaving, Stories

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Reality, Past

• Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Light, Views

• We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Rights, Dust

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Circles

  Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

• Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Memories, Looks, World

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Expanding Universe, Light

• True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Believe, Borders

• Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Waiting, Next

• The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Men, Idols, Sides

• This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Determined, Quantum, Every Second

• Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mind, Needs, Hook

• The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stars, Years, Atoms

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