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«We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Friendship
«This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?»
«You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.»
«They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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get up, knees, recover, recovering, recovers, snowflake, snowflakes
«Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absurdity, addiction, bank, bank account, bastard, cabinet, cabinets, collecting, cousin, fascination, fascinations, hobbies, obsession, occupation, of sound mind, sister, stamp, trophies, trophy
«Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| Keywords:
measurement, observer, relative, take into account, The Observer
«However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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cleanses, cleansing, debase, debased, debases, debasing, feature, focus on, redemptive
«It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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commiserate, commiserates, commiserating, distressed, inspiring, rescues, rescuing, telegram, telegrams, wonder woman
«Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Happiness,
People
| Keywords:
bloom, homo, Homo sapiens, kidding, manages, sapiens
«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?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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