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Someone Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came…
- It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
- Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a…
- Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you…
- What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
- In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself…
- When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a…
- Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire…
- When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same…
- You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I…
- You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
- If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be…
- So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually…
- And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
- Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I…
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- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson