Kindle Quotes

when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as a good unless it produces measurable results.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via Sebbcee)

Going mad takes time. Getting sane takes time.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via Jon)

And our madness-measure is always changing. Probably we are less tolerant of madness now than at any period in history. There is no place for it. Crucially, there is no time for it. Going mad takes time. Getting sane takes time.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via )

Sometimes, often, a part of us is both volatile and powerful – the towering anger that can kill you and others, and that threatens to overwhelm everything.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via Jon)

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear … Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via Harald Ludwigsen)

I did cry. Why is the measure of love

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via Harald Ludwigsen)

The one good thing about being shut in a coal-hole is that it prompts reflection.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via Jon)

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via “hakk02”)

We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via “hakk02”)

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.

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—	Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via J. Cosgrove)