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Margaret Atwood Inspirational Quotes (469)

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This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
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Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?
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Life's not fair why should I be?
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Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate it would be romance, bad luck.
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I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
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I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] it almost made me want to be a film-maker!
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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.
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I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
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In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
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Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
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Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
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I never say I'm an ist of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.
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Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
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We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
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His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.
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Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
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for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.
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Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.” “Them?” “Nature and God.” “I thought you didn’t believe in God,” said Jimmy. “I don’t believe in Nature either,” said Crake. “Or not with a capital N.
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