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Margaret Atwood Quotes
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One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they’ve learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being? (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there’s no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty’s Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn’t there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I’m heartless, I thought. Therefore I’m homeless (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
It’s his word against the Commander’s, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you’ll sink in your little blue boat - It’s hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I’m only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I didn’t want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise? (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Anyway, maybe there weren’t any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I’ll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I’ll make you me (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she’ll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
We shouldn’t be saying ‘Save the planet’ we should be saying: ‘Save viable conditions in which people can live.’ That’s what we’re dealing with here (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
1984’ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‘the plot’ (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‘Where did we come from, what happens next?’ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits (Margaret Atwood Quotes)
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot (Margaret Atwood Quotes)