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Rather Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
- 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,…
- Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a…
- But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
- She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
- ... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me,…
- I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
- I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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