6 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson about understanding
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She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late.
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The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe.
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There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilisation, but to become that city, that civilisation, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what you hated, and what you hated was what you did not understand.
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She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
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the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
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It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.
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