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Jeanette Winterson

  • Nayhas quoted10 months ago
    We had no Wise Men because she didn’t believe there were any wise men,
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    I do think that the relationship my mother enjoyed with God had a lot to do with positioning.
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    but she never was particularly fair
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    It’s odd, the things other people think are exciting.
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    Poor Mrs Finch. How did she live with him? Then I remembered the gypsy. ‘You’ll never marry.’ That might not be such a bad thing after all.
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    She said stories helped you to understand the world.
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    ‘There’s this world,’ she banged the wall graphically, ‘and there’s this world,’ she thumped her chest. ‘If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.’
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    You had to make salvation relevant to them, to their minds. So, if you visited a sea people, you used sea metaphors to pass on the message. And most important, when talking to individuals, you determined as soon as you could what they most wanted in life, and of what they were most afraid. This made the message immediately relevant.
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    but today I was too unhappy.
  • Nayhas quoted9 months ago
    I was bewildered, then angry, in-the-stomach angry.
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