Jeanette Winterson: Frasi in inglese

Jeanette Winterson è scrittrice britannica. Frasi in inglese.
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“It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Variante: It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.'
I answered you: 'Isolde.'
Isolde. The world became a word.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Lighthousekeeping

Origine: Lighthousekeeping

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”

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Origine: The Powerbook

“I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Gut Symmetries

Origine: Gut Symmetries

“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

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Origine: Written on the Body

“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Lighthousekeeping

Origine: Lighthousekeeping

“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion

“I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”

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Origine: Written on the Body

“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”

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Origine: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Passion

Origine: The Passion (1987)

“If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.”

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“I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”

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“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Non ci sono solo le arance

Origine: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro Il sesso delle ciliegie

Origine: Sexing the Cherry

“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.

A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”

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Origine: The World and Other Places: Stories

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

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Origine: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said…. Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.”

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Jeanette Winterson libro The Stone Gods

Origine: The Stone Gods