In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. - Jeanette Winterson
It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.
- Jeanette Winterson
Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was. - Jeanette Winterson
Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don'… - Jeanette Winterson
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don'…
Life was a pre-death experience. - Jeanette Winterson
Life was a pre-death experience.
Do it from the heart or not at all. - Jeanette Winterson
Do it from the heart or not at all.
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents,… - Jeanette Winterson
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents,…
There’s no story that’s the start of itself. - Jeanette Winterson
There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. - Jeanette Winterson
Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
In this life, you have to be your own hero. - Jeanette Winterson
In this life, you have to be your own hero.
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