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Art and Lies QUOTES

Art and Lies QUOTES

1 " There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

2 " Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

3 " Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood? "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

4 " What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself? "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

5 " But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory? "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

6 " Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

7 " Progress is not one of those floating comparatives, so beloved of our friends in advertising, we need a context, a perspective. What are we better than? Who are we better than? Examine this statement: Most people are better off. Financially? socially? educationally? medically? spiritually? I dare not ask if you are happy? Are you happy? "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

8 " I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

9 " Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

10 " And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That's where I am alone, the observer and the observed. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

11 " Every day in my consultancy, I meet men and women who are out of their minds. That is, they have not the slightest idea who they really are or what it is that matters to them. The question 'How shall I live?' is not one I can answer on prescription. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

12 " The words come at my call but who calls whom? "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

13 " Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

14 " I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

15 " Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

16 " The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

17 " I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

18 " After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, "I fuck therefore I am". "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

19 " Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies

20 " There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies "

― Jeanette Winterson , Art and Lies