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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Margaret Atwood quotes

Canadian Novelist, Writer, Poet November 18, 1939

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When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards to to sleep. The passwords fail. Margaret Atwood
I stand holding the apple in both hands. It feels precious, like a heavy treasure. I lift it up and smell it. It has such an odour of outdoors on it I want to cry. Margaret Atwood
You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have..."
They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "It's better to hope than mope!"
It's better to hope than mope! Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. Margaret Atwood
I take my meals -- with the exception of the breakfasts, which have thus far been even more deplorable than the breakfasts we shared as medical students in London -- at a squalid inn located in the vicinity, where every meal is a burnt offering, and nothing is thought the worse for the addition of a little dirt and grime, and a seasoning of insects. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The..."
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a..."
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. Margaret Atwood
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had..."
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety;..."
Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety; she smells of violets. Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood quote: "I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something,..."
I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance. Margaret Atwood
They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills. Margaret Atwood
Glenn used to say the reason you can’t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I’ll be dead,' you’ve said the word 'I,' and so you’re still alive inside the sentence. And that’s how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul—it was a consequence of grammar. Margaret Atwood

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