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Into Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
- You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came…
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the…
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
- Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
- The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
- Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- 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…
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was…
- I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
- You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
- Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with…
- Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old…
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
- 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…
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
- A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if…
- Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones;…
- What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
- Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong