Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
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You can't save anybody.
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Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.
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The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.
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Naked is the best disguise.
