Margaret Atwood quotes - page 5

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both. (Margaret Atwood)
Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with. View quote
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Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. View quote
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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. View quote
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I tell, therefore you are. View quote
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Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. View quote
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. View quote
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She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. View quote
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I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will. View quote
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But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men. View quote
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People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. (Margaret Atwood)
The proper study of Mankind is Everything. View quote
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Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it. View quote
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When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous. View quote
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A movie about the past is not the same as the past. View quote
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. View quote
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I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault. View quote
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A lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters. View quote
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The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. View quote
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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. View quote
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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. (Margaret Atwood)
Don't let the bastards grind you down. View quote
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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. View quote
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In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres. View quote
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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. View quote
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