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The free man never thinks of escape.

The free man never thinks of escape.

Jeanette Winterson
Men, Thinking, Free Man
Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.3, Canongate Books

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.

Jeanette Winterson
Hero, Healing, Community

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Jeanette Winterson
Stupid, Thinking, Would Be

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Jeanette Winterson
Fate, Destiny, Worry

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Jeanette Winterson
Writing, Self, Literature
"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

Jeanette Winterson
Clear, Ifs, Meant To Be

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Jeanette Winterson
Reality, Years, Experience

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

Jeanette Winterson
Heart, Two, Splits
Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.185, Random House

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson
Thinking, Hype, People

I don't believe in happy endings.

Jeanette Winterson
Believe, Happy Endings, Don't Believe

Naked is the best disguise.

Jeanette Winterson
Naked, Disguise

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Jeanette Winterson
Grief, Past, Greater

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

Jeanette Winterson
Stories
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Jeanette Winterson
Work, Stressful Situations, People

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

Jeanette Winterson
Book, Writing, Left

If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

Jeanette Winterson
Hero, People, Causes

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

Jeanette Winterson
People, Where You Live, Literature

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Jeanette Winterson
Self, People, Literature
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Jeanette Winterson
Character, Literature, Spotlight
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

Jeanette Winterson
Two, People, Literature

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson
Past, Would Be, Needs
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Jeanette Winterson
Historical Novels, Literature, Cloaks
"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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. Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little. Feeling is frightening.

Jeanette Winterson
Feelings, Mind, Pathways
Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

Jeanette Winterson
World, Accidents, New World
"The white room" by Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2004.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Jeanette Winterson
Hate, Purpose, I Hate
"Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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