Jeanette Winterson

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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  • Валерия Фроловаhas quoted6 years ago
    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, then being on somebody else’s.
  • Yrina Rzhas quoted6 years ago
    What is it?’

    ‘It’s my heart.’

    ‘But it’s made of stone.’

    ‘I know,’ the raven replied sadly. ‘You see I chose to stay, oh, a long time ago, and my heart grew thick with sorrow, and finally set.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted6 years ago
    And so, being sensible, the collector of curios will surround himself with dead things, and think about the past when it lived and moved and had being. The collector of curios lives in a derelict railway station with a video of various trains. He is the original living dead
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted6 years ago
    So the past, because it is past, is only malleable where once it was flexible. Once it could change its mind, now it can only undergo change. The lens can be tinted, tilted, smashed. What matters is that order is seen to prevail . . . . and if we are eighteenth-century gentlemen, drawing down the blinds as our coach jumbles over the Alps, we have to know what we are doing, pretending an order that doesn’t exist, to make a security that cannot exist.
  • Fanyhas quoted7 years ago
    Some folk say I’m a fool, but there’s more to this world than meets the eye
  • Paulinahas quoted4 days ago
    ‘Grant me’ . . . fame? money? success? No. Just the knack of knowing when to stop.
  • Paulinahas quoted4 days ago
    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 quoted4 days ago
    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 quoted4 days ago
    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 quoted4 days ago
    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.
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