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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croaking about another life I think I can see.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren't come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity.
    book-quotelifeorbitingorbits

  3. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and let her see that the world isn't interested in a little black girl's dreams.
    book-quotehopeagingyouth

  4. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    Invisible worlds, or worlds that are supposed to be invisible interest me. I like to see the effort it takes for some people to make things go smoothly for other people. Don't misunderstand me; mostly I'm part of the invisible world myself.
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don't do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    I had been agitating for a pet for some time. In my head I had a white rabbit called Ezra who bit people who ignored me. Ezra's pelt was as white as the soul in heaven but his heart was black...
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    Stop thinking," she said. "The more you think, the faster you cut your own throat.
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    In the lives of saints I look for confirmation of excess. To them it is not strange to spend nights on a mountain or to forgo food. For them, the visionary and the everyday coincide. Above all, they have no domestic virtues, preferring intensity to comfort. Despite their inhospitable ways, they ferment with unexpected life, like those bleak railway cuttings that host horizontal dandelions. They know there is no passion without pain.
    book-quotereligionpainpassion

  9. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    If I am honest I will admit that I have always wanted to avoid love. Yes give me romance, give me sex, give me fights, give me all the parts of love but not the simple single word which is so complex and demands the best of me this hour this minute this forever.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    Nobody can afford to sleep anymore. Do you realise how much it costs?
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    That night, I knew I would get away, better myself. Not because I despised who I was, but because I did not know who I was. I was waiting to be invented. I was waiting to invent myself.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ The World and Other Places:

    What could he know at two months old, head like a question mark?
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