"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul." - EMERSON
Showing posts with label Margaret Atwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margaret Atwood. Show all posts
"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it."
-MARGARET ATWOOD
"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth."
-MARGARET ATWOOD
"Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines."
-MARGARET ATWOOD,
Cat's Eye
"Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow."
— MARGARET ATWOOD
“There is always more than you know. There are always boxes put away in the cellar, worn shoes and cherished pictures, notes you find later, sheet music you can’t play.”
