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18 about art
4 about biography
20 about book
31 about books
8 about change
12 about children
4 about community
6 about creativity
4 about cutting
12 about death
5 about desire
5 about destiny
4 about dream
4 about effort
7 about emotions
4 about falling-in-love
6 about fate
7 about fear
6 about feelings
9 about feminism
10 about fiction
4 about freedom
7 about future
4 about gender
6 about god
5 about grief
7 about growing-up
6 about growth
6 about hands
8 about happiness
7 about healing
10 about heart
6 about history
4 about imagination
13 about inspirational
26 about jeanette-winterson
4 about journey
12 about language
4 about laughing
4 about lesbian
45 about life
5 about light
32 about literature
4 about loneliness
8 about loss
66 about love
7 about love-is
14 about lying
4 about madness
4 about memories
5 about memory
11 about men
4 about mothers
4 about nature
4 about needs
7 about obsession
6 about pain
4 about parents
23 about passion
12 about past
6 about people
5 about poetry
4 about present
26 about reading
10 about reality
4 about regret
6 about relationships
6 about religion
5 about revenge
4 about science
5 about self
9 about sex
4 about shakespeare
4 about stars
10 about stories
4 about storytelling
30 about thinking
18 about time
7 about truth
6 about understanding
7 about women
11 about words
4 about world
27 about writing

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    You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

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You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

-Jeanette Winterson

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

-Jeanette Winterson

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

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As your lover describes you, so you are.

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The free man never thinks of escape.

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I libri sono per me una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, sono una casa, nel senso che, così come apri una porta, apri un libro e ci entri.

-Jeanette Winterson

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    Le chiesi perchè non voleva libri in casa e lei rispose: "Il guaio di un libro è che scopri cosa contiene solo quando è troppo tardi."Io pensai: "Troppo tardi per cosa?"Cominciai a leggere di nascosto [...] ogni volta che aprivo le pagine di un libro mi chiedevo se questa volta sarebbe stato troppo tardi: avrei dovuto un sorso fatale che mi avrebbe trasformato per sempre.

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Le chiesi perchè non voleva libri in casa e lei rispose: "Il guaio di un libro è che scopri cosa contiene solo quando è troppo tardi."Io pensai: "Troppo tardi per cosa?"Cominciai a leggere di nascosto [...] ogni volta che aprivo le pagine di un libro mi chiedevo se questa volta sarebbe stato troppo tardi: avrei dovuto un sorso fatale che mi avrebbe trasformato per sempre.

-Jeanette Winterson

Mia madre non voleva che i libri cadessero nelle mie mani. Non aveva previsto che io potessi cadere nei libri, che mi infilassi dentro di loro per stare al sicuro.

-Jeanette Winterson

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

-Jeanette Winterson

 

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