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Because Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
- I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
- You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof…
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's…
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
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- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle