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Story Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form…
- You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in…
- It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
- Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's…
- 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…
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
- 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…
- 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…
- By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this…
- I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than…
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line…
- 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…
- The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
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