"The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Time Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.”
“I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.”
“Scotland is the Canada of England!”
“Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.”
“Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.”

Source : Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.102, MIT Press
“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
“The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“Swans in the winter air A white perfection have”

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