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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.


Margaret Atwood

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So few people understand about anything.
MARGARET ATWOOD This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
MARGARET ATWOOD No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.
MARGARET ATWOOD By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at...
KENZABURO OE Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed,
but he might be the only one that could justify ...
TOBA BETA True happiness is giving all my love. True bliss would be to taste just a drop of my love.
KEVIN SPARKS And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th...
GRAHAM GREENE You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer...an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to w...
MARGARET ATWOOD I opened myself to your silences.
MARGARET ATWOOD I got my first taste of it last year. This is a lot of fun. I wish every game could be like this.
BRET MEYER Lordy...
This man should be locked up. A smile that could surely cause mass ovulation had to be...
AMY ANDREWS I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only o...
ANDREA BOCELLI How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him.
DAVE DAVIES Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about sufferi...
JOHN GREEN I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green indu...
FRANK ADAMS How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength!
JACLYN DOLAMORE Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must ent...
JANE AUSTEN Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more ...
BARRY MANILOW Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!"
Said ...
MARIE LU He's the master, ... It's admirable. I watch him with my mouth open and think, 'How does he do it?' ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Lack of identity, father's never bein' themselves. That's an obscenity - how could we allow this to ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER In planning it, I'm saying, 'Could I justify the educational value of this to my mom?' If we can, we...
DAIN LEWIS In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD One is reminded in this connection of a story concerning Kobori-Enshiu. Enshiu was complimented by h...
KAKUZō OKAKURA I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discover...
JEREMY IRONS Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing a...
MARY BALOGH I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
JULIE ORRINGER If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that...
LAURA PALMER Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...
T.H. WHITE She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. ...
JAROD KINTZ I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself arou...
IDINA MENZEL Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a sin...
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
MARGARET ATWOOD She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his...
MARGARET ATWOOD She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despise...
MARGARET ATWOOD Just the idea of him with a love interest is mind-boggling, ... I don't know how it could be handled...
STEVE CARELL There,” she said softly. “Now he could be sleeping.
J.K. ROWLING Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely res...
KIRAN DESAI How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still no...
ZEN CHO The Taste of Water can be enjoyed only when we are thirsty" Same way, "The Love of True friends Will...
DHARM BABU If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can pai...
ELMORE LEONARD How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?
SUZANNE COLLINS But what you need to understand, my darling," she whispers, "is that this little taste your daughter...
ELEANOR CATTON Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private r...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a sin...
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at...
JOHN KEATS I had a nightmare. So my friend asked me what it was. I told him it was him sleeping with my mom. He...
MUNTAZIR M. He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself
BOBBY ROBSON Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its pain...
C.S. LEWIS Life can change in a moment. With Columbine, 9-11 and Katrina we understand this to be true. How cou...
PETER STROPLE ...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started...
YRSA SIGURðARDóTTIR Hearts In Me

If I look to the world with hearts in my eyes
Then surely I’ll be int...
JAY WOODMAN I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my le...
KIRK HAMMETT The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lac...
JOHN MCWHORTER If I could bronze my love, it’d be worthy of a silver medal.

DARK JAR TIN ZOO Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
JENNIFER DONNELLY Without love and forgiveness, how could there be happiness?
DEBASISH MRIDHA [...] I could cease to be a Grey and take the name of my mother should have had before she was marri...
CASSANDRA CLARE Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
WILFRED BURCHETT Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed wi...
BRIAN BOYLE I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistre...
JOANNA KRUPA True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.
KAKUZō OKAKURA He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get ...
JAMES PATTERSON Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?
How...
TERRY PRATCHETT Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No business person could justify these kinds of losses continuing.
LANCE CONN If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how ...
EVAN PARKER If true, the impact of this partnership could be extremely positive for RIM.
PETER MISEK I feel like I'm in the twilight zone, ... I love my town and if somebody could tell me this, I'd say...
DAVID MORALES He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks...
MARGARET ATWOOD If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
EMMET FOX If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
EMMETT FOX If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world
EMMET FOX But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you c...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Pardon the lack of testosterone in this status, but I just feel like spreadin' the love man!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes throu...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through m...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the tast...
MICHELLE HODKIN In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothi...
LORETTA YOUNG I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dis...
G.A. AIKEN Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.
KELLY ROWLAND Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
FRANK OCEAN Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS If you are going to be true to your squad how can you justify figures like that.
FRASER NEILL Just sex without love will leave you unfulfilled. Sleeping around with multiple partners will not fu...
MADDY MALHOTRA How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA How could that trailer go out? Why the lack of concern? Where's the empathy? Where's the understandi...
JACK SHAHEEN even if this is a mistake. it could only be right to be this wrong with you.
RUPI KAUR You're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet. I could drink a case of you dar...
JONI MITCHELL In this world of loneliness, Betrayal was my best friend, Whilst love stood at the door as my enemy,...
DR NIRVADHA SINGH For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
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MARGARET ATWOOD Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
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MARGARET ATWOOD No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
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MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
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MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
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MARGARET ATWOOD There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
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MARGARET ATWOOD The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, ca...
MARGARET ATWOOD Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
MARGARET ATWOOD If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least h...
MARGARET ATWOOD I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they si...
MARGARET ATWOOD Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
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MARGARET ATWOOD A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. P...
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MARGARET ATWOOD In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
MARGARET ATWOOD I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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MARGARET ATWOOD They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it mark...
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MARGARET ATWOOD If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of pers...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
MARGARET ATWOOD Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
MARGARET ATWOOD You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story t...
MARGARET ATWOOD Canada was built on dead beavers.
MARGARET ATWOOD How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fell...
MARGARET ATWOOD She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.
In spirit she walks the city, traces its...
MARGARET ATWOOD You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
MARGARET ATWOOD Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...
MARGARET ATWOOD Gardening is not a rational act.
MARGARET ATWOOD Second-hand American was spreading over him in patches, like mange or lichen. He was infested, garbl...
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MARGARET ATWOOD If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most peopl...
MARGARET ATWOOD When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling ti...
MARGARET ATWOOD We understand more than we know.
MARGARET ATWOOD Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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MARGARET ATWOOD You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that'...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Girl Without Hands

Walking through the ruins
on your way to work
that do not lo...
MARGARET ATWOOD '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under differ...
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MARGARET ATWOOD I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
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MARGARET ATWOOD The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
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MARGARET ATWOOD My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one ...
MARGARET ATWOOD The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
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MARGARET ATWOOD I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's ...
MARGARET ATWOOD I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes.

'You have a rich inner life,' says Ton...
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MARGARET ATWOOD But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most. I wish she were h...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
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MARGARET ATWOOD In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as po...
MARGARET ATWOOD Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on you...
MARGARET ATWOOD Sauve qui peut. To survive
we’d all turn thief

and rascal, or so says the fox,
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MARGARET ATWOOD A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
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MARGARET ATWOOD She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not beca...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selfless...
MARGARET ATWOOD She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, ...
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MARGARET ATWOOD I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you...
MARGARET ATWOOD What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams...
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MARGARET ATWOOD I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
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MARGARET ATWOOD You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t ne...
MARGARET ATWOOD But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion....
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MARGARET ATWOOD It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and set...
MARGARET ATWOOD The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
MARGARET ATWOOD She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
MARGARET ATWOOD Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, t...
MARGARET ATWOOD Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It...
MARGARET ATWOOD What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which i...
MARGARET ATWOOD There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
MARGARET ATWOOD Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so...
MARGARET ATWOOD Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the brig...
MARGARET ATWOOD The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by ...
MARGARET ATWOOD There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
MARGARET ATWOOD The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
MARGARET ATWOOD Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Secon...
MARGARET ATWOOD Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
MARGARET ATWOOD The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betr...
MARGARET ATWOOD Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
MARGARET ATWOOD The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
MARGARET ATWOOD I think of this as a democratizing device.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
MARGARET ATWOOD The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
MARGARET ATWOOD For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
MARGARET ATWOOD He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After readin...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Just think of it as a very, very long pen.
MARGARET ATWOOD Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
MARGARET ATWOOD A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
MARGARET ATWOOD Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
MARGARET ATWOOD You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
MARGARET ATWOOD Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un...
MARGARET ATWOOD Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy...
MARGARET ATWOOD I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
MARGARET ATWOOD I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it...
MARGARET ATWOOD We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
MARGARET ATWOOD My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
MARGARET ATWOOD Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
MARGARET ATWOOD Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...
MARGARET ATWOOD She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why...
MARGARET ATWOOD The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
MARGARET ATWOOD