"I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.”
“You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.”
“There are good characters and bad characters.”
“Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.”
“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”
“The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.”
“Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.”
“And we hope that when they hear it, you know, it'll make people get out of their cars and just go live life to the fullest!”

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