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"41 Jeanette Winterson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 August 1959 | Writer |

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Powerful You Matter Somebody
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Life Privations Thing Risk
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Professionalism Experience Accomplish Access
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Life Hard knocks Sure Yourself
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

People Feel Self Whole
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Write Read Fiction Change
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Write Group Change Consciousness
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Believe Communication Ideas People
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Everything Writing Language Listening
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

We Make Lasts Outlives
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don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Understand People Art Mind
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creative Work Difficult Tests
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art Saved Depression Innocence
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Truth Love Life Heart
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What you risk reveals what you value.
What Risk Reveals Value
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Create Past Fiction Language
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Writers Listening Voices Create
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Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Religion Spiritual Values Corrupted
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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Love Desire Reason Temptation
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do it from the heart or not at all.

Do Heart
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Language Truth Lie Precise
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Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

Pain Maimed Creature Mouth
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If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Courage Love Acts War
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In this life, you have to be your own hero.
Life You Own Hero
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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

Language Finding Place Hiding
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Rebellion Art Death Life
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to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Change Understand Nature Evil
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Fiction and poetry are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry Medicines Reality Imagination
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I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Accept Life Ordinary Shape
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.

History Means Denying Past
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The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

Impulse Worship Eradicate Something
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Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Love Strength Reliable Rising
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

Think Worlds Human Forms
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Fate Hang on Moment Changed
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

True What Fear Find
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I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Important Whatever Time Safe
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Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art Enchantment Artist Spells
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

Love Drown Kills Neglect
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Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.
Love Experiment Happens Surprising
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

Power Text Words Work
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Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Intensity Desire Receive Light
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Jeanette Winterson Quotes & Sayings