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Such Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack…
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such…
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain…
- Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
- He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue…
- Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it,…
- 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…
- We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
- By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your…
- I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?
More Such Quotes
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- 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
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough