Jeanette Wintersonová citáty (191 citátů, strana 2)

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Jeanette Wintersonová nejznámější citáty

„Někde mezi strachem a sexem leží vášeň.“

Vášeň

„Je jedna černá věž, kde žije divá zvěř. V té věži není oken ani dveří. Nikdo nemůže dovnitř ani ven. Na vrcholu je klec, jejíž mřížoví je z kostí. Z té klece hledí ke slunci uvězněný duch. Tou věží je mé tělo, klecí je má lebka, ten duch, co si pro útěchu prozpěvuje, jsem já.“

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Jak naštěpit třešeň

„Do hazardu se pouštíme s nadějí na výhru, ale ve skutečnosti nás vzrušuje to, co bychom mohli ztratit.“

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Vášeň

„Jsem spisovatelka, která náhodou miluje ženy. Nejsem lesba, která náhodou píše.“

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Originál: (en) I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Zdroj: [Burrell, Jocelyn, 2004, Word: On Being a [Woman] Writer, Feminist Press at CUNY, 102, angličtina]

Jeanette Wintersonová: Citáty anglicky

“No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Sexing the Cherry (1989)
Varianta: What you risk reveals what you value. (p.91)
Zdroj: Written on the Body

“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping

Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping

“Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

“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.”

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Zdroj: Written on the Body

“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

“He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.
Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.”

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

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

“I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”

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“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

“As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping

Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping (2004)
Kontext: You say we are not one, you say truly there are two of us. Yes, there were two of us, but we were one. As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

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Zdroj: The Powerbook (2000)

“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.”

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“It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

“Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.”