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Between Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.…
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative…
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to…
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up…
- Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in,…
- Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
- So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to…
- I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's…
- There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions…
- We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us…
- We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
- But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are…
- All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the…
- The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the…
- The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful…
- we lived in the gaps between the stories
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