“There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.”

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complai…" by Jeanette Winterson?
Jeanette Winterson photo
Jeanette Winterson 187
English writer 1959

Related quotes

Alice Sebold photo
Nora Roberts photo
Ron English photo

“You may know you’re going to die, but you won’t know you’re dead.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

Robert A. Heinlein photo

“Fighting continued on a token basis, and the dead did not complain.”

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 12, p. 171

Chuck Palahniuk photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Wayne W. Dyer photo
William Ernest Henley photo

“Dear, was it really you and I?
In truth the riddle's ill to read,
So many are the deaths we die
Before we can be dead indeed.”

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor

Source: Poems (1898), Rhymes And Rhythms, XV

John Updike photo

“The great thing about the dead, they make space.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Rabbit is Rich (1981)

Ani DiFranco photo

Related topics