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Paper Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack…
- 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 were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us…
- Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.
- Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of…
- The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful…
- Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
- 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…
- By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your…
- The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding…
More Paper Quotes
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and… — Paul Auster
- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. — Pearl Bailey
- Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper,… — Roseanne Barr
- The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan
- I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my… — Adele
- If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
- Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the… — Theodore Bikel
- I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers. — Andrea Bocelli