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Jeanette Winterson CBE ist eine britische Schriftstellerin.

✵ 27. August 1959  •  Andere Namen Jeannette Winterson, جنت وینترسون
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Jeanette Winterson Zitate und Sprüche

„Die Wahrheit aber ist, dieses Wäre ist immer nur eine Erfindung. Ich kann nur die Entscheidungen treffen, die ich treffe, warum sich also quälen mit dem, was gewesen wäre, wenn ich doch nur bewältigen kann, was war?"
"Die Wäre-Inseln sind für den Menschen unbewohnbar.“

Jeanette Winterson buch The Stone Gods

The Stone Gods

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“Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Written on the Body

“You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking?”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Written on the Body

“I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: The Powerbook

“The curious are always in some danger.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Sexing the Cherry

Quelle: Sexing the Cherry

“The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: The Powerbook (2000)

“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“No emotion is the final one.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Quelle: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Written on the Body

“Know thyself,’ said Socrates.
Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Art and Lies

“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Quelle: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Written on the Body

“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch The Passion

Quelle: The Passion

“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Sexing the Cherry

Quelle: Sexing the Cherry (1989)

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Quelle: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?”

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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.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Sexing the Cherry

Quelle: Sexing the Cherry

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Quelle: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Art and Lies

“Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.”

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Quelle: Art and Lies

“Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?”

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Quelle: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch Lighthousekeeping

Quelle: Lighthousekeeping

“Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play.”

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Jeanette Winterson buch The Passion

Quelle: The Passion (1987), p.73

“Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”

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“Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Written on the Body

“To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love”

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Jeanette Winterson

Quelle: Powerbook

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