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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Mia madre non voleva che i libri cadessero nelle mie mani. Non aveva previsto che io potessi cadere nei libri, che mi infilassi dentro di loro per stare al sicuro.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Le chiesi perchè non voleva libri in casa e lei rispose: "Il guaio di un libro è che scopri cosa contiene solo quando è troppo tardi." Io pensai: "Troppo tardi per cosa?" Cominciai a leggere di nascosto {...} ogni volta che aprivo le pagine di un libro mi chiedevo se questa volta sarebbe stato troppo tardi: avrei dovuto un sorso fatale che mi avrebbe trasformato per sempre.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Mi piace il modo in cui i gatti amano stare un po' dentro e un po' fuori, per assecondare sia il loro lato domestico sia quello selvatico, e anch'io mi sento selvatica e domestica. Posso stare in casa, ma solo se la porta è aperta.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    I libri sono per me una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, una casa, nel senso che, così come apri una porta, apri un libro e ci entri.
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Ti do un consiglio: quando sei giovane e ti capita di leggere qualcosa che non ti piace affatto, mettilo da parte e rileggilo tra tre anni dopo. Se ancora non ti piace, rileggilo dopo altri tre anni. E quando sei giovane - quando arrivi ai cinquant'anni come me - rileggerai il libro che ti è piaciuto in assoluto di meno.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you?I had no idea.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving.
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    If the sun is shining, stand in it – yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass – they have to – because time passes.
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    It never happened, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there to happen. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    But as I try and understand how life works--and why some people cope better than others with adversity--I come back to something to do with saying yes to life, which is love of life, however inadequate, and love for the self, however found. Not in the me-first way that is the opposite of life and love, but with a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream...
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling.
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