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Look Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42.
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- 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 look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- 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…
- The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I…
- oil paints...the look of licked lips.
- Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a…
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no…
- When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.…
- All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.
- I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public…
- Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain,…
- You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
- I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
- Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and…
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- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood