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Things Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you…
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
- Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
- When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I…
- Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.
- Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not…
- I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
- Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
- 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…
- The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.
- Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where…
- 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…
- Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for…
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- 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…
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how…
- She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them…
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
- 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…
- Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle