margaret-atwood

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894a03a	We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.	knowledge margaret-atwood snooping the-blind-assassin	Margaret Atwood
787cc9c	The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.	makeup margaret-atwood the-blind-assassin young-girls youth	Margaret Atwood
f1b991e	"How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed -	fellowship maddaddam-trilogy margaret-atwood ren the-year-of-the-flood toby when-adam-first	Margaret Atwood
7bab957	Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.	life life-is-short margaret-atwood mortality the-robber-bride	Margaret Atwood
49af6d6	"Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring them in the forehead and turn tail.	margaret-atwood morning-in-the-burned-house	Margaret Atwood
b07ffd4	She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?	foresight fortune-telling inevitable margaret-atwood prophecy suffer the-future the-robber-bride unchangeable	Margaret Atwood
712fc6d	...he was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.	cleverness margaret-atwood	Margaret Atwood
a3ac35d	What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.	margaret-atwood mothers	Margaret Atwood
77681eb	So few people understand about anything.	margaret-atwood the-robber-bride	Margaret Atwood
f3046ec	He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.	curiosity inquisitiveness margaret-atwood unearthing-suite	Margaret Atwood
1158c36	She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.	idea margaret-atwood metaphor the-robber-bride	Margaret Atwood
aa25bdb	Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?	margaret-atwood musing question questioning similarities the-robber-bride	Margaret Atwood
50b9207	The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. --the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers--I could now see--faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch,	language margaret-atwood poetry ridiculous simile the-blind-assassin unrequited-love	Margaret Atwood
1ac3789	If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.	loud margaret-atwood the-robber-bride	Margaret Atwood

894a03a

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

knowledge margaret-atwood snooping the-blind-assassin

Margaret Atwood

787cc9c

The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.

makeup margaret-atwood the-blind-assassin young-girls youth

Margaret Atwood

f1b991e

"How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed -

fellowship maddaddam-trilogy margaret-atwood ren the-year-of-the-flood toby when-adam-first

Margaret Atwood

7bab957

Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.

life life-is-short margaret-atwood mortality the-robber-bride

Margaret Atwood

49af6d6

"Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring them in the forehead and turn tail.

margaret-atwood morning-in-the-burned-house

Margaret Atwood

b07ffd4

She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?

foresight fortune-telling inevitable margaret-atwood prophecy suffer the-future the-robber-bride unchangeable

Margaret Atwood

712fc6d

...he was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.

cleverness margaret-atwood

Margaret Atwood

a3ac35d

What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.

margaret-atwood mothers

Margaret Atwood

77681eb

So few people understand about anything.

margaret-atwood the-robber-bride

Margaret Atwood

f3046ec

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.

curiosity inquisitiveness margaret-atwood unearthing-suite

Margaret Atwood

1158c36

She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.

idea margaret-atwood metaphor the-robber-bride

Margaret Atwood

aa25bdb

Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?

margaret-atwood musing question questioning similarities the-robber-bride

Margaret Atwood

50b9207

The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. --the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers--I could now see--faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch,

language margaret-atwood poetry ridiculous simile the-blind-assassin unrequited-love

Margaret Atwood

1ac3789

If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.

loud margaret-atwood the-robber-bride

Margaret Atwood