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Margaret Atwood Quote: “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “I tell, therefore you are.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “The past is a closed door.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Writing is alone, but I don’t think it’s lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they’re writing their book, and I think they’ll say no.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we’re living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “The internet is 95 percent porn and spam.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Fear has a smell, as love does.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “It doesn’t really matter what “genre” your book is. What matters is that it’s a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “More and more I feel like a letter – deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “The society in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “You think I’m not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you’ll burn.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don’t let there be air; or Don’t be. I suppose you could say that.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “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.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”
Margaret Atwood Quote: “But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it’s her excessive love that pushes him away.”
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