Jeanette Winterson Citas

• I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Pieces

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El arte puede marcar la diferencia porque pone a la gente en evidencia. Dice: no aceptes las cosas por su valor nominal; no tienes por qué estar de acuerdo con nada de esto; puedes pensar por ti mismo.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Arte, Pensamiento, Diferencias

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• You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Pain, Pregnancy

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• In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, World, Dialogue

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• It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lo que quieres

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• While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Dream, Morning

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• I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Communication

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• I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Years, Leaving, Another Chance

  "Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

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• Es difícil recordar que este día no volverá a repetirse. Que el momento es ahora y el lugar es aquí y que no hay segundas oportunidades en un solo momento.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Second Chance, Remember, Moments

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Clever, Stupid, Hero

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House

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• As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

  New Experiences, People, Dull

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• Para mí, el lenguaje es una libertad. En cuanto encuentras las palabras con las que expresar algo, ya no eres incoherente, ya no estás atrapado por tus propias emociones, por tus propias experiencias; puedes describirlas, puedes contarlas, puedes sacarlas de ti mismo y dárselas a otra persona. Es una experiencia enormemente liberadora.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving, Emotion, Language

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• Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Expression, Break Out

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.9, Random House

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• Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there's nothing there.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cheating, Hands, Infidelity

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• To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Inspirational, World, Breakdown

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• But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Oscuridad, Luz, Necesidades

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.172, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Libro, Hogar, Puertas

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• Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Misery, Miserable

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• Tengo la teoría de que cada vez que tomas una decisión importante, la parte de ti que queda atrás continúa la otra vida que podrías haber tenido.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Important Choices, Theory, Left Behind

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Keys, Tolerance, Key To Happiness

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• There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Discovery, Risk, Values

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• I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Stupid, School

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• Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dog, Falling In Love, Book

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• There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Half, Alive, Term

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• The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mind, World

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.40, Random House

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