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Behind Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form…
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- 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…
- Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
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- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a… — Lester Bangs
- I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. — Stephen Baldwin
- I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the… — Christian Bale
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
- I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the… — Antonio Banderas
- I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in… — Javier Bardem
- All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr