62 result(s) for Margaret Atwood Quotes.
"When you're in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all but only a confusion."
"There's more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."
"Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness."
"Gilead is a theocracy, and a theocracy is a state which is run by religious fanatics. It is not unheard of in human history. Sad to say."
"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."
"Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity."
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
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"Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some."
"Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water."
"You fit into me like a hook into an eye."
"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space."
"It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction."
"But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind."
"We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."
"Never pray in a room that doesn't have a window."
"To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering God, what's going on?"
"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse for some."
"Potential has a shelf life."
"Atwood's First Law: Any application of technology to a sufficient extent resembles magic."
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"Writing is a way of claiming the world."
"We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease."
"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."
"The beginning is always today."
"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 out of the story. Which is part of the story too."
"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that."
"But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh."
"You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it."
"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever."
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
"Ignorance is strength."
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible."
"Gilead is a theocracy. It's always theocracies that are the severest, the most unjust, the most unscrupulous."
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"The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!"
"We thought we were acting like revolutionaries. But revolutions always come around again."
"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down."
"A person is defined not by his body, but by what he does with it."
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
"Subjectivity is a slippery concept."
"The world I feel when I'm writing - joy, fear, a sense of safety, love and hate - is when it feels real."
"A word after a word after a word is power."
"In the end, we'll all become stories."
"Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results."
"Gardening is not a rational act."
"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."
"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
"I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light."
"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. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."
"I would like a moment of your time to remember that 'memento mori' which is Latin for 'Remember you will die'."
"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some."
"War is what happens when language fails."
"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
"I hope that people will finally come to realize that we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."
"Where everything seems to be possible, it's hard to find the truth."
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together."
"Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"I cannot let the fear of the past color the future."
"When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage."
"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."
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