Jeanette Winterson: Frasi in inglese

Jeanette Winterson è scrittrice britannica. Frasi in inglese.
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“Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”

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Origine: Art and Lies

“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion

“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.”

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“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Il sesso delle ciliegie

Origine: Sexing the Cherry

“Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Gut Symmetries

Gut Symmetries (1997)
Contesto: They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

“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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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.”

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Origine: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion

“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Lighthousekeeping

Origine: Lighthousekeeping

“Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)”

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“We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Lighthousekeeping

Origine: Lighthousekeeping

“Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Lighthousekeeping

Origine: Lighthousekeeping

“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.”

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Origine: Written on the Body