There is a bit [in Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?] where I talk about 'keeping the heart awake to love and beauty.' That’s very difficult in our world, even when things are going well. It’s not a world with much room for love and beauty. The daily news is [filled with] everything that goes wrong in our world, and everything horrible and unpleasant. I think that saturates your mind with negativity. I really think we need something to counteract that. I don’t think it’s Pollyanna or sentimental to focus on the ways we support one another on the micro level.
(from "It is the Imagination that Counts")
Autore: Jeanette Winterson
![There is a bit [in <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/06/only-six-books-excerpt-from-jeanette-winterson-s-new-memoir.html" rel="nofollow noopener">Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?</a>] where I talk about 'keeping the heart awake to love and beauty.' That’s very difficult in our world, even when things are going well. It’s not a world with much room for love and beauty. The daily news is [filled with] everything that goes wrong in our world, and everything horrible and unpleasant. I think that saturates your mind with negativity. I really think we need something to counteract that. I don’t think it’s Pollyanna or sentimental to focus on the ways we support one another on the micro level.<br /><br />(from "<a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/03/03/jeanette-winterson-it-is-the-imagination-that-counts/" rel="nofollow noopener">It is the Imagination that Counts</a>") - Jeanette Winterson](/static/img/quotes/573914.jpg)