"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance."

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Source : "Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

Jeanette Winterson

#Years Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Alive Quotes

“For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.”

Source : Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”
“I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!”
“Write the book you want to read”
“We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old - Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host? - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people".”
“Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women”
“When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.”
“I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.”

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