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Better Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
- Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .…
- You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like…
- Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
- Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
- Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,…
- So much better to travel than to arrive.
- He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box…
- I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that…
- Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
- I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than…
- When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry…
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
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