Margaret Atwood Quotes - Page 26

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• The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.

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  Long, Bars, Looking Forward

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.

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  Crush, Stars, Revenge

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.423, Anchor

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• Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

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  Selfish, Princess, Want

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• This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Bridges

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.

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  Ignorance, Dark, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

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  Knives, Skills, Teeth

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• The bell that measures time is ringing

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  Bells

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

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  Love, Pain, Past

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

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  Landscape, Knows

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• The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

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  Writing, Way, Assuming

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.283, Anchor

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• I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

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  Tree, Pretending, Corners

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Art

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

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  Dream, Frozen, Get Away

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

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  Running, Voice, People

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• I feel like the word shatter.

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  Feels

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

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  Eye, Greed, World

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• Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

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  Morning, Night, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.305, Random House

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• I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

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  Energy, Would Be, Might

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• 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.

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  White, Rose, Looks

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.296, Random House

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• 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.

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  Air, Might, Grind

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.447, Random House

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• Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

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  Sadness, Two, Together

  Margaret Atwood (2010). “The Year Of The Flood”, p.211, Hachette UK

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• Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

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  Dizzy, Sides, Elevators

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

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  Sharks, Survivor, May

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• What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.

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  Country, Mirrors, Luxury

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• For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

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  Children, Alive, Mouths

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.129, Anchor

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