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Day Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to…
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to…
- Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong