Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury
– Jeanette Winterson
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- [Concerning Lyotard’s ideology:]… Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution. – Bill Readings
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- Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? – Jeanette Winterson
- She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn’t go out to work. – Jeanette Winterson
- Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. – Jeanette Winterson
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- 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
- A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? – Jeanette Winterson
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- the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present – the new chance. – Jeanette Winterson
- You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own. – Jeanette Winterson
- I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn’t talking to them. – Jeanette Winterson
- I want to touch you.”And if you did touch me, what then?”I would find a language of beginning. – Jeanette Winterson
- I can change the story. I am the story. – Jeanette Winterson
- 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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- I kissed her and forgot death. – Jeanette Winterson
- And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with? – Jeanette Winterson
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