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„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

“It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Varianta: It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.'
I answered you: 'Isolde.'
Isolde. The world became a word.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping

Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”

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Zdroj: The Powerbook

“I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Gut Symmetries

Zdroj: Gut Symmetries

“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

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Zdroj: Written on the Body

“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping

Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping

“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

“I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”

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Zdroj: Written on the Body

“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”

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Zdroj: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.”

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“Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion (1987)

“If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.”

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“I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”

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“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Sexing the Cherry

Zdroj: Sexing the Cherry

“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.

A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”

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Zdroj: The World and Other Places: Stories

“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.”

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Zdroj: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said…. Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Stone Gods

Zdroj: The Stone Gods

“Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping

Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping

“I'm telling you stories. Trust me.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion (1987)

“Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.”

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“Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.”

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Zdroj: The Powerbook

“A bridge is a meeting place… a possibility, a metaphor.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion (1987)
Kontext: We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night? (p.57)

“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.”

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Zdroj: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Infatuation. First Love. Lust.
My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.”

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Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

“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.”

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Zdroj: Art and Lies