Margaret Atwood Short Quotes

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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

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The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

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A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

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All writers feel struck by the limitations of language.

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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

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You aren't sick and unhappy, only alive and stuck with it.

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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

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Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

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The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

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Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.

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You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

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You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

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

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I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

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I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

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Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

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Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

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How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

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Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

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If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

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He might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

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We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

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Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

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