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Jeanette Winterson, née le 27 août 1959 à Manchester, est une romancière britannique.

✵ 27. août 1959  •  Autres noms Jeannette Winterson, جنت وینترسون
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Jeanette Winterson Citations

“Ne sachant quoi lire ni dans quel ordre, j'ai suivi l'alphabet. Dieu merci, elle s'appelait Austen…”

Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson: Citations en anglais

“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 livre Lighthousekeeping

Source: 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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Jeanette Winterson

Source: 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 livre Gut Symmetries

Source: 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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Jeanette Winterson

Source: 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 livre Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

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

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Jeanette Winterson livre The Passion

Source: The Passion

“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Source: The Powerbook

“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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Jeanette Winterson

Source: 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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Jeanette Winterson

Source: 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 livre The Passion

Source: 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 livre Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: 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 livre Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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

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Jeanette Winterson livre Sexing the Cherry

Source: 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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Jeanette Winterson

Source: 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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Jeanette Winterson

Source: 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 livre The Stone Gods

Source: The Stone Gods

“I'm telling you stories. Trust me.”

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Jeanette Winterson livre The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)

“Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Source: The Powerbook

“A bridge is a meeting place… a possibility, a metaphor.”

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Jeanette Winterson livre The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)
Contexte: We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night? (p.57)

“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Infatuation. First Love. Lust.
My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.”

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Jeanette Winterson livre The Passion

Source: The Passion

“I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Source: Art and Lies

“Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.”

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Jeanette Winterson livre The Stone Gods

Source: The Stone Gods

“I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.”

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Jeanette Winterson livre Gut Symmetries

Source: Gut Symmetries

“I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does.”

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Jeanette Winterson livre The Passion

The Passion (1987)