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Enough Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- 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…
- The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to…
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- 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…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- 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…
- Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .…
- Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I…
- If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.
- What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and…
- If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s…
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- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
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- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
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- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe