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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Margaret Atwood quotes

Canadian Novelist, Writer, Poet November 18, 1939

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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
Margaret Atwood quote: "we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people..."
...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing. Margaret Atwood
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo. Margaret Atwood
You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone. Margaret Atwood
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead. Margaret Atwood
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
Margaret Atwood quote: "Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into..."
Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women."
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it..."
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. Margaret Atwood
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. 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
He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion. Margaret Atwood
The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that. Margaret Atwood
I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning. Margaret Atwood
He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them. Margaret Atwood

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