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Might Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
- You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be…
- 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…
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.
- Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on…
- Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land,…
- he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
- I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love…
- Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us…
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- 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
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine