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Back Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came…
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come…
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with…
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology…
- Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
- I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled…
- We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
- Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire…
- 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…
- But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted…
- I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
- Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without…
- You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood