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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Margaret Atwood quotes about happy

Canadian Novelist, Writer, Poet November 18, 1939

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First maid: If I was a princess, with silver and gold, And loved by a hero, I'd never grow old: Oh, if a young hero came a-marrying me, I'd always be beautiful, happy, and free! Chorus: 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
That image - of a little child being suffocated, or almost suffocated, by others who thought the whole thing was a game - melded with the furtive nocturnal slugs, and my solitary pacing and singing, and the separate, claustrophobic stairway, and the charmless abstract painting, and the gold-framed mirror, and the slithery green satin bedspread, and became inseperable from them. It wasn't a cheerful composite. As a memory, it is more like a fog bank than a sunlit meadow. Yet I think of that... Margaret Atwood
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life. Margaret Atwood
People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy..."
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed. Margaret Atwood
They say: Speak for us (to whom?) Some say: Avenge us (on whom?) Some say: Take our place. Some say: Witness Others say (and these are women) Be happy for us. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of..."
These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though..."
They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had..."
Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were..."
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "How were we to know we were happy?"
How were we to know we were happy? Margaret Atwood

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