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Thought Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- 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…
- I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet…
- Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;…
- That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
- Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.
- Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
- 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…
- I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to…
- Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought…
- We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
- Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.
- Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you…
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- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
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