Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
Jeanette WintersonTag: journey travel jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
Jeanette WintersonTag: metaphor poet island jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
Jeanette WintersonTag: imagination reality jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
Jeanette WintersonTag: truth language lie jeanette-winterson sexing-the-cherry
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.
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And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.
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My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular place, you expected to see particular things. Sheep and hills, sea and fish; if there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs. Jones and talk about fishcakes. But most likely, she's do what most people do when confronted with something they don't understand. Panic.
Jeanette WintersonTag: expectation jeanette-winterson oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit unexpected-things
...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.
Jeanette WintersonTag: art existence creation jeanette-winterson oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit to-create
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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