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Said Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
- Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
- There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to.…
- So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to…
- The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the…
- As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't…
- Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he…
- All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the…
- Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said…
- Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .…
- What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In…
- There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
- Where do the words go when we have said them?
- She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,…
- That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at…
- Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it,…
- So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
- You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
- When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined…
- Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in…
- But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.
- 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…
- Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It…
- We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
- What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high…
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- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker
- I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was… — Alec Baldwin
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a… — Christian Bale