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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    I have found that I am not a space where people want to live. At least not without decorating first.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people keep fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    HE: History has no smell.ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it?HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn't stink like the present.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    It is necessary to go through life a little blunted, a little cloaked, how else to bear even a single day? The horror and the glory would overwhelm me. Papa used to talk about the story of the burning bush when God appears to Moses as a roar of fire. Moses asks to see God face to face and God tells him that to do so, even partially, even for a second, would kill him with its beauty and its power. 'Who shall look on God and live?' To Papa this was the central paradox of his religion, for there is no life without God and yet to approach God means death.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as I start to run?
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying till its weight is the weight of the world. Bacteria: agents of putrefaction. My father's decay lodged in me.
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    It would not be the first time that Jove and Stella had covered the traces of where I began and where they ended. I liked the playfulness of the lovers' argument: who are you and who am I? Which of us is which? Liked it less when the erotic twinhood developed into forged letters and faked signatures.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Gut Symmetries

    She had navigated her parents' hostile waters with a child's discretion, learning to keep from one the confessions of the other. Learning to hide love.
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