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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

"You are the only one of your kind."

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."

"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."

"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"

"To succeed and reach your life goals, you must know who you are."
Explore more quotes by Jeanette Winterson

"I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion."

"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."

"The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct."

"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?"

"One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life."

"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."

"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places."
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