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Margaret Eleanor Atwoodová je kanadská spisovateľka.

✵ 18. november 1939  •  Ďalšie mená Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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„Minulosť je oveľa bezpečnejšia, pretože všetko, čo sa v nej nachádza, sa už stalo. Nedá sa to zmeniť, takže sa v istom zmysle niet čoho báť.“

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“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Blind Assassin

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Year of the Flood

Zdroj: The Year of the Flood

“I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Penelopiad

Zdroj: The Penelopiad

“The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.”

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Zdroj: Moral Disorder and Other Stories

“We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Dancing Girls

Zdroj: Dancing Girls

“The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Handmaid's Tale

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Alias Grace

Zdroj: Alias Grace

“But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Cat's Eye

Zdroj: Cat's Eye

“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”

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Zdroj: The Tent (2006)

“The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Handmaid's Tale

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Blind Assassin

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Dancing Girls

Zdroj: Dancing Girls

“Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Blind Assassin

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Zdroj: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

“Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Blind Assassin

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Blind Assassin

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“We've learned to see the world in gasps.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Handmaid's Tale

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Handmaid's Tale

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.”

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Zdroj: The Tent

“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake

Zdroj: Oryx and Crake

“The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Cat's Eye

Zdroj: Cat's Eye

“What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?”

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“expectation isn't the same as desire”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Oryx and Crake

Zdroj: Oryx and Crake

“Where were we? I've forgotten.
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Right. Yes. The usual choices.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Blind Assassin

Zdroj: The Blind Assassin

“You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha Good Bones

Zdroj: Good Bones

“I tell, therefore you are.”

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Margaret Atwood kniha The Handmaid's Tale

Zdroj: The Handmaid's Tale

“Last year I abstained
this year I devour

without guilt
which is also an art”

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Zdroj: You are Happy