"I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had."

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

Jeanette Winterson

#Choices Quotes #Important Quotes #Theory Quotes

“It is the mind that makes the body.”
“I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.”
“Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.”
“Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.”
“Weâ€™re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.”
“In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here to Jupiter, giving us enormous angular resolution so we can do the kind of science that a self-respecting advanced civilization ought to be doing. We should someday be imaging the continents on other planets. We can't do that yet, but aliens can do that already, so they know we are here.”

Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.
“After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.”
“What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.”

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