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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?How much of recollection is invention?Whose invention?
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    The Pope is often an embarrassment. Each Pope nurses his own foibles and follies, pet truths and pet hates, and all must be accommodated within the seamless seemingly unchanging whole of Catholic Truth. Often the Popes contradict one another, and even more often, they contradict the great masters they reanimate to support their own certainties. The theologians take it as a joke. They are interested in the power of the Church and her authority. Power, authority and revenues, are what they are there to protect. They can dye black white.They do."
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself?
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    Reportage is violence. Violence to the spirit. Violence to the emotional sympathy that should quicken in you and me when face to face we meet with pain. How many defeated among our own do we step over and push aside on our way home to watch the evening news? "Terrible" you said at Somalia, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Russia, China, the Indian earthquake, the American floods, and then you watched a quiz show or a film because there's nothing you can do, nothing you can do, and the fear and unease that such powerlessness brings, trails in its wash, a dead arrogance for the beggar on the bridge that you pass every day. Hasn't he got legs and a cardboard box to sleep in?And still we long to feel.
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    There is the sailor sea and the commercial sea, the oil-well sea and the fishy sea. The sea that tests the land through sublunary power. The rise and fall of the harbour sea and the sea that exists to make maps look prettier. But the functional sea is not the final sea. There is that other sea simply itself.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better than? Who are we better than? Examine this statement: Most people are better off. Financially? socially? educationally? medically? spiritually? I dare not ask if you are happy? Are you happy?
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it is that matters to them. The question 'How shall I live?' is not one I can answer on prescription.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case.
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Art and Lies

    The words come at my call but who calls whom?"
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