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Real Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's…
- Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own,…
- What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- Not real can tell us about real.
- I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that…
- 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…
- Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my…
- There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave…
- It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here.…
- All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable…
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become… — J. J. Abrams
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
- I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. — David Attenborough
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough