The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do. Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue. Jeanette Winterson motherartthinking Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there Jeanette Winterson bodylightsecret The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear. Jeanette Winterson enoughfearworld The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life. Jeanette Winterson choicesdoneislands I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely. Jeanette Winterson partyhateidentity I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. Jeanette Winterson womenliteraturethinking What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain. Jeanette Winterson painhealingdream Memory loss is one way of coping with damage. Jeanette Winterson lossmemoriesway In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state. Jeanette Winterson pathwaysmindfeelings True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end. Jeanette Winterson bordersbelievelying I have no idea what happens next. Jeanette Winterson nexthappensideas Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. Jeanette Winterson unconditional-lovelove-ischildren Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's on the other side, and everyone has a story to tell os a woman or a brothel or an opium night or a war. We fear it. We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. Jeanette Winterson passionlovewar To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Jeanette Winterson supplementsappreciateappreciation What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? Jeanette Winterson clearmeant-to-beifs We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment. Jeanette Winterson disappointmentsecretmight Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead. Jeanette Winterson narrativewaypast Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative. Jeanette Winterson measurementdiversityjustice I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. Jeanette Winterson historical-novelscloaksliterature It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. Jeanette Winterson helpfulhusbandartist
