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He needed to exist only in th...

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

I don't think I solve problem...

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

You can wet the rim of a glas...

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Love blurs your vision; but a...

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

I was sand, I was snow—writte...

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

There's something final about...

There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Every budding dictatorship be...

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

...we must be a beacon of hop...

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

A rat in a maze is free to go...

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Nobody dies from lack of sex....

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

A home filled with nothing bu...

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Why can't I believe? she aske...

Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned.It gazed at her. She gazed at it. "You are the effect of a carefully calibrated blend of plant toxins," she told it.Then she fell asleep.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Writing is alone, but I don't...

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

She imagines him imagining he...

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

The reader cannot see into yo...

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

If you're not annoying somebo...

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

She knows herself to be at th...

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

While in a vintage restaurant...

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

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a handful of crumpled stars ...

a handful of crumpled stars

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What fabrications they are, m...

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....