Jeanette Winterson Quotes
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Pandora Press, 1985.
Bush, one of America’s least articulate Presidents was trying to convey that his dirty tricks and attacks on his opponent, John McCain, was over, and ended up with this comical tautology.
This old proverb, commonly uttered in Russia and Slavic countries, in part, explains why Russians, Serbs, and others of the area seem so mired in the past.
Jeanette Winterson CBE is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity, with later novels also exploring the relationship between humans and technology. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
