Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.
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Citations by Jeanette Winterson
I'm never tempted by God but I like his trappings.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Why is the measure of love loss?
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When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Passion is not well bred.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
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One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.
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It is silence that most needs an answering: when I can no longer speak, hear me.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
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