Jeanette Winterson: Frasi in inglese

Jeanette Winterson è scrittrice britannica. Frasi in inglese.
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“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.”

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Origine: Art and Lies

“Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.”

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Origine: Art and Lies

“Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?”

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Origine: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Lighthousekeeping

Origine: Lighthousekeeping

“Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion (1987), p.73

“Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”

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“Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.”

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Origine: Written on the Body

“To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love”

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Origine: Powerbook

“Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion (1987)

“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Variante: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Origine: The Passion

“Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Lighthousekeeping

Origine: Lighthousekeeping

“The free man never thinks of escape.”

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Origine: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion

“Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion

“One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.”

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“I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Origine: Written on the Body