#la

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#accomplish #experience #hidden #lot #ordinary

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#know #matter #never #powerful #somebody

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#because #book #change #i #late

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lasts #make #outlives #us

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#everybody #incestuous #know #live #london

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

#extinct #interest #lasts #over #speaks

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#different #ever #every #get #go

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#create #fiction #invented #language #need

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the words are empty - dry gourds rattling in the silence. The dark is terrible and I feel so alone. I see no signs but the symbols of contradiction. I try to dispose myself to faith, hope and charity, but my will is a blown reed in the winds of despair. ↗

— Morris L. West

#christianity #faith #prayer #faith

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#consists #contemplation #design #new #old