Jeanette Winterson Quotes - Page 18

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• By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Betrayal, Mean, Your Side

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.171, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Betrayal, Mean, Your Side

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.171, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Fall, Limits

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Choices, Parent

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2012.

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• Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stories

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

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• I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

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  Community, Mind, Important

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.140, Random House

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• She was a monster, but she was my monster.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Monsters

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, www.abc.net.au. 2011.

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• What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Want

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

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  Strangers And Friends, Want

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• If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving Up, Demon, Found

  Jeanette Winterson (1985). “Oranges are Not the Only Fruit”

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• She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Long, Needs

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

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  Hands, Sun, Heat

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.51, Random House

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• August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

  Jeanette Winterson

  August, Degrees, Want

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.12, Random House

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• We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Body, Remember, States

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.162, Random House

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• Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Born, Pundits, Stamps

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• Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.

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  Hurt, Memories, Thinking

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• We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Secret, Might

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• Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

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  Children, Unconditional Love, Love Is

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• I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

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  Sex, Writing, Important

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• Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Journey, Stories

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• You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Grief, Hole In My Heart, Over It

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• I don't believe in happy endings.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Happy Endings, Don't Believe

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• I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hate, Party, Identity

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• I have no idea what happens next.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Ideas, Next, Happens

  "Jennifer Byrne Presents", www.abc.net.au. July 31, 2012.

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• What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Clear, Ifs, Meant To Be

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