Time Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“Nobody nowhere knows what time it is.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Margaret Atwood

The past is a closed door.

— Margaret Atwood

The bell that measures time is ringing

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Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

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“A space-time, between here and now and there and then, puncuated by dinner”

— Margaret Atwood

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

— Margaret Atwood

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

— Margaret Atwood

“In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it's a sea on which you float.”

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“...most people prefer a past is which nothing smells.”

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Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power…

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If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I…

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“He knows this by the way the girl stumbles, and it occurs to him for the first time that by taking her…

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I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The…

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But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies,…

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Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.…

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You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until…

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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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“Their mother died early, and not in a good way. Not that anyone dies in a good way, Tin footnotes to himself,…

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“He's got his cigarette going. He offers her one; this time she takes it. Brief match-flare insider their cupped hands. Red finger-ends.…

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“I lie, then, inside the room, under the plaster eye in the ceiling, behind the white curtains, between the sheets, neatly as…

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“His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he’s been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the…

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As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the…

— Margaret Atwood

“I was nervous. How was I to know he loved me? It might be just an affair. Why did we ever say…

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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…

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“He had been with me, but he wasn't with me now, we had been walking along a street like this one and…

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“Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever's going on is usual.…

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Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed…

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“My name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it’s forbidden. I tell myself it doesn’t matter, your…

— Margaret Atwood

Canada, at the moment, is going through a Lord of the Rings moment. Having been a lowly Hobbit with furry feet and…

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“When I was younger, imagining age, I would think, Maybe you appreciate things more when you don't have much time left. I…

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“The future is in your hands, she resumed. She held her own hands out to us, the ancient gesture that was both…

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“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely,…

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“I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it…

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“I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...”

— Margaret Atwood

“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”

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“fuck” is a spirit called upon for guidance in times of need.”

— Margaret Atwood

“It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. Then”

— Margaret Atwood