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We live as best we may in a world of worms.

We live as best we may in a world of worms.
– Jeanette Winterson

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  2. For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. – Jeanette Winterson
  3. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. – Jeanette Winterson
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  5. And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with? – Jeanette Winterson
  6. I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. – Jeanette Winterson
  7. Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. – Jeanette Winterson
  8. The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear. – Jeanette Winterson
  9. To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. – Jeanette Winterson
  10. The true nature of the world is energy not mass. – Jeanette Winterson
  11. Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper’s body with their starving minds. – Munia Khan
  12. What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? – Jeanette Winterson
  13. Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing. – Jeanette Winterson
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  16. The free man never thinks of escape. – Jeanette Winterson
  17. I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging. – Jeanette Winterson
  18. Eating was easy. Thinking was hard. – Jeanette Winterson
  19. The past is magnetic. It draws us in. – Jeanette Winterson
  20. Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? – Jeanette Winterson
  21. She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn’t go out to work. – Jeanette Winterson
  22. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. – Jeanette Winterson
  23. the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i’m not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. – Jeanette Winterson
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  25. Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions? – Jeanette Winterson
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  28. 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. – Jeanette Winterson
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  31. Be with someone you don’t want to be without. – Jeanette Winterson
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  37. Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. – Jeanette Winterson
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  40. Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything! – Jeanette Winterson

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