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Firsts Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
- Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the…
- Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
- at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
- They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did…
- Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish…
- So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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