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Margaret Atwood Inspirational Quotes (469)

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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.
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What you get is no longer what you see.
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Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
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As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.
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I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
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We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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It's in Macbeth: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon. I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!
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In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.
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It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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Blank pages inspire me with terror.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry I think I uncover the problems.
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It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
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Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?
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Love's never a fair trade.
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I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.
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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
Margaret Atwood
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