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"How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!"

"Time lost can never be regained."

"We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food."

"Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!"

"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

"The only thing you have to show for a wasted or spent time is that you just realize that you are getting older."

"To waste time is to become wasted."

"Those who waste time eventually become wasted."
Explore more quotes by Jeanette Winterson

"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."

"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world."

"With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy."

"Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully."
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