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“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.” (Art and Lies Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Art and Lies
“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
“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
“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
“In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger.”
Jeanette Winterson
Art and Lies
“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 unlied.”
Jeanette Winterson
Art and Lies
“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
