in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Language isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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Aphorisms by Jeanette Winterson
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.
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This is a quantum universe, neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The free man never thinks of escape.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable: that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
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