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In my dreams of this city I am always lost. — Margaret Atwood

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood

Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because — Margaret Atwood

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner. — Margaret Atwood

She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood

How dare she show herself to be everything he was so annoyed with her for not being? — Margaret Atwood

Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. — Margaret Atwood

We would like to hear the story of Fuck," says Abraham Lincoln politely. — Margaret Atwood

There are some things that do not fare well in high definition. — Margaret Atwood

One detaches oneself. One describes. — Margaret Atwood

It was the feet they'd do, for a first offense. They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. After — Margaret Atwood

so hard, sometimes, to tag those memories accurately. — Margaret Atwood

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down. — Margaret Atwood

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood

His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it. — Margaret Atwood

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter - deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. — Margaret Atwood

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. — Margaret Atwood

Now there's a huge building in its place, what they call a shopping complex, as if shopping were a psychic disease. — Margaret Atwood

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused. — Margaret Atwood

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done? — Margaret Atwood

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went.
No, why?
You moved.
Just don't move. — Margaret Atwood

Those in pain have no time for the pain they cause. — Margaret Atwood

Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he — Margaret Atwood

Boys don't smell the same as girls. They have a pungent, leathery, underneath smell, like old rope, like damp dogs. — Margaret Atwood

What is the real breath of a man - the breathing out or the breathing in? — Margaret Atwood

There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed. — Margaret Atwood

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. — Margaret Atwood

People had hoarded the lead bullets from the time before sprayguns, despite the ban on the pleebs having any kind of gun at all. Snowman — Margaret Atwood

Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers. — Margaret Atwood

Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words have. — Margaret Atwood

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What — Margaret Atwood

A thing is valued, only if it is rare and hard to get. — Margaret Atwood

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression. — Margaret Atwood

Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don't seem so to me. — Margaret Atwood

What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies. — Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability. — Margaret Atwood

friendship was always contingent. — Margaret Atwood

He's humanoid, he's hominid, he's an aberration, he's abominable; he'd be legendary, if there were anyone left to relate legends. — Margaret Atwood

I wonder
if I should let my hair go grey
so my advice will be better. — Margaret Atwood

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up — Margaret Atwood

The past is a closed door. — Margaret Atwood

Like a pathway through a forest, like a carpet for royalty, it shows me the way — Margaret Atwood

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous. — Margaret Atwood

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance. — Margaret Atwood

A plane of cheekbone, — Margaret Atwood

Econowives, they're called. These — Margaret Atwood

Somewhere in Limbo, all the old devices and appliances and costumes are lined up, waiting their turn for reentry. — Margaret Atwood

We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. — Margaret Atwood

Once they tried to save something, others or their own souls. — Margaret Atwood

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. — Margaret Atwood

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. — Margaret Atwood

She found herself stepping into ritual as if into a pair of stone shoes. — Margaret Atwood

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. — Margaret Atwood

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. A — Margaret Atwood

Because citizens were always a bit like inmates and inmates were always a bit like citizens, so Consilience and Positron have only made it official. — Margaret Atwood

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted. — Margaret Atwood

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is. — Margaret Atwood

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one. — Margaret Atwood

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind. — Margaret Atwood

Maybe all women should be robots, he thinks with a tinge of acid: the flesh-and-blood ones are out of control. — Margaret Atwood

I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Deathwatch. That's a kind of beetle, it buries carrion. I — Margaret Atwood

A man in a cloud, with icicle teeth and eyes of fire. — Margaret Atwood

A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book. — Margaret Atwood

what is is, as Grandma Win used to say, and what can't be cured must be endured, and laugh and the world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone. — Margaret Atwood

It's astonishing how folks can get so worked up over something that doesn't exist. — Margaret Atwood

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They — Margaret Atwood

a flayed body untangled
string by string and hung
to the wall, an agonized banner
displayed for the same reason
flags are. — Margaret Atwood

It made him feel invisible - not that he wanted to feel anything else. — Margaret Atwood

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood

Is it disapproval or extreme lust? Toby wonders. With some men it's hard to tell the difference. — Margaret Atwood

People always forget about prophecies unless they come true. — Margaret Atwood

If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it. — Margaret Atwood

And each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing. — Margaret Atwood

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. — Margaret Atwood

Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space. — Margaret Atwood

I've got nothing against telepathy, said Jane; but the telephone is so much more dependable. — Margaret Atwood

Spend this in remembrance of me. — Margaret Atwood

Vancouver is the suicide capital of the country. You keep going west until you run out. You come to the edge. Then you fall off. — Margaret Atwood

I began to forget myself
in the middle
of sentences. — Margaret Atwood

This bug is something new though. We've got the bioprint. — Margaret Atwood

He was twisted as a pretzel, he was a tinfoil-halo shitnosed frogstomping king rat asshole, but he wasn't stupid. — Margaret Atwood

With you I could have
more than one skin,
a blank interior, a repertoire
of untold stories,
a fresh beginning. — Margaret Atwood

Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last — Margaret Atwood

The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator ten times over. — Margaret Atwood

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed — Margaret Atwood

Love's never a fair trade. — Margaret Atwood

None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. — Margaret Atwood

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. — Margaret Atwood

Yelling is a form of publishing — Margaret Atwood

I know I was alright on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual. — Margaret Atwood

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood

What would that be like - to long, to yearn for someone who is right there before your eyes, day in and day out? — Margaret Atwood

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed — Margaret Atwood

Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence? — Margaret Atwood

I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply. — Margaret Atwood

How much longer can I be so fucking cute? — Margaret Atwood