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Jeanette Winterson

  • Paulinahas quotedlast month
    Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don’t matter a bit. I have had plenty of each and they have only encouraged me, but dinginess, the damp small confines of the mediocre and the gradual corrosion of beauty and light, the compromising and the settling; these things make good work impossible.
  • Paulinahas quotedlast month
    it seemed to me in those days of no money, no job, no prospects and a determined dinginess creeping up from the lower floors of our rooming house, that there had to be a centre, a talisman, a fetish even, that secured order where there seemed to be none; dressing for dinner every night in the jungle
  • Paulinahas quotedlast month
    To do something large and to do it well demands such observances, personal and peculiar, laughable as they often are, because they stave off that dinginess of soul that says that everything is small and grubby and nothing is really worth the effort.
  • Paulinahas quotedlast month
    It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habitual circumstances of the human condition
  • Paulinahas quotedlast month
    ‘Grant me’ . . . fame? money? success? No. Just the knack of knowing when to stop.
  • Paulinahas quotedlast month
    ‘you are in danger of being burned by your own flame.’
  • Verónicahas quoted10 months ago
    The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
  • Verónicahas quoted10 months ago
    The horrible sick feeling that I had never belonged and never would belong
  • Verónicahas quoted9 months ago
    . I understood twice born was not just about being alive, but about choosing life. Choosing to be alive and consciously committing to life, in all its exuberant chaos – and its pain.
  • Verónicahas quoted9 months ago
    Listen, we are human beings. Listen, we are inclined to love. Love is there, but we need to be taught how.
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