By increasing the cigarette tax, Tennessee will reduce smoking, save lives and help offset the rising health care costs caused by smoking.


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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of con...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Naked is the best disguise.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
do it from the heart or not at all.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is her...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up m...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.
JEANETTE CORON
When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON
I'm not a quitter.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The wider we read the freer we become.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
That thing you’re afraid of? That label you shy away from? That word that seems too bold? That aud...
JEANETTE LEBLANC
Don't you think it's strange that life, described
as so rich and full, a camel-trail of advent...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new ...
JEANETTE MICHELLE
Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...
History is a collection of found objects washed up ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hangi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differentl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
You are here and it hurts and the world feels impossibly heavy and you are shouting bargains at the ...
JEANETTE LEBLANC
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took yo...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
History is a madman's museum.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting ol...
JEANETTE WINTERSON