Jeanette Winterson: Frasi in inglese

Jeanette Winterson è scrittrice britannica. Frasi in inglese.
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“Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Origine: Written on the Body

“You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking?”

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Origine: Written on the Body

“I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.”

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Origine: The Powerbook

“The curious are always in some danger.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Il sesso delle ciliegie

Origine: Sexing the Cherry

“The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.”

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Origine: The Powerbook (2000)

“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”

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Origine: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”

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Origine: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“No emotion is the final one.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?”

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Jeanette Winterson

Origine: Written on the Body

“Know thyself,’ said Socrates.
Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.”

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Origine: Art and Lies

“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?”

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Jeanette Winterson

Origine: Written on the Body

“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion

“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Il sesso delle ciliegie

Origine: Sexing the Cherry (1989)

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?”

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“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Il sesso delle ciliegie

Origine: Sexing the Cherry