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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Margaret Atwood quotes about kindness

Canadian Novelist, Writer, Poet November 18, 1939

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Why is it that we want so badly to memorialise ourselves? Even while we're still alive. we wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. we put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. what do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. we... Margaret Atwood
He's got his cigarette going. He offers her one; this time she takes it. Brief match-flare insider their cupped hands. Red finger-ends. She thinks, Any more flame and we'd see the bones. It's like X-rays. We're just a kind of haze, just coloured water. Water does what it likes. It always goes downhill. Margaret Atwood
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedges and weeds grow up, to allow the doors to rust shut, to lie on my bed in some gown-shaped garment and let my hair lengthens and spread out over the pillow and my fingernails to sprout into claws, while candle wax drips onto the carpet. But long ago I made a choice between classicism and romanticism. I prefer to be upright and contained—an urn... Margaret Atwood
[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture are those stories it takes seriously—the ones that are thought to be a key to its identity. Margaret Atwood
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "It's kind of shocking to hear Toby called a babe; sort of like..."
It's kind of shocking to hear Toby called a babe; sort of like calling God a studmuffin. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and..."
Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they..."
Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. Margaret Atwood
i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over. Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "There is more than one kind of freedom...Freedom to and..."
There is more than one kind of freedom...Freedom to and freedom from. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds..."
Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong...."
People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. Margaret Atwood
He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger. Margaret Atwood

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