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The City Council and the mayor, all them, are the ones who are responsible for this. So if anybody is costing the taxpayers, it's our elected officials that are costing them.


Jeanette Surratt

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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 I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON There are two questions: where have you come from, and where are you going? But the brain doesn't ha...
JEANETTE WINTERSON moss that is concentrating on being green.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet,’ said Spike, ‘made of water, entirely of water, where every solid thing is i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
JEANETTE WINTERSON She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is t...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I kissed her and forgot death.
JEANETTE WINTERSON There’s a planet called Echo. It doesn’t exist. It’s like those ghost-ships at sea, the sails ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON