Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot…

Jeanette Winterson
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
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Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up li … ▶
And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
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Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
No emotion is the final one. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2007). Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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