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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2d62391 | I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 866f25d | Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 20c7eae | Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because | Margaret Atwood | ||
| bdccabd | There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 2d040fb | What is the real breath of a man-- the breathing out or the breathing in? Such was the nature of the gods | Margaret Atwood | ||
| c08464e | violated by bloodshed and gluttony and pride and disdain. Say their Names. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ae926f8 | That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| c229af9 | I wonder if I should let my hair go grey so my advice will be better. | ageing grey-hair wisdom | Margaret Atwood | |
| 0fd5ad8 | Let's pretend this, let's pretend that. They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 724db5f | Messy love is better than none. I guess. I'm no authority on sane living. | love messy-love passion sanity | Margaret Atwood | |
| 994f632 | Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 30b4d85 | There was always that shadowy twin, thin when I was fat, fat when I was thin, myself in silvery negative, with dark teeth and shining white pupils glowing in the black sunlight of that other world. --Margaret Atwood | Mona Awad | ||
| ba321a6 | Stan got the message. He allowed the chicken assignations. What did that make him? A chicken pimp. Better than dead. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| eda233f | That is a reconstruction, too. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| bada812 | I still have it in me to feel sorry for him. Moira is right, I am a wimp. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 39a1534 | The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly." | palliative-care | Margaret Atwood | |
| 21629ac | This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ec94c0e | I'm not mad because I'm a woman," I say. "I'm mad because you're an asshole." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e56bb44 | Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 7c0a79e | Vosotros los jovenes no sabeis apreciar las cosas, proseguia. No sabeis lo que hemos tenido que pasar para lograr que esteis donde estais. Miralo, es el quien pela las zanahorias. ?Sabeis cuantas vidas de mujeres, cuantos cuerpos de mujeres han tenido que arrollar los tanques para llegar a esta situacion? La cocina es mi pasatiempo predilecto, decia Luke. Disfruto cocinando. Un pasatiempo muy original, replicaba mi madre. No tienes por que .. | feminismo human-rights puritanism puritanismo totalitarism totalitarismo women-rights | Margaret Atwood | |
| f7dd90b | I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| e4d7c14 | Your Grace is more fit to be a preacher than a knight-errant," said Sancho. "Knights-errant" | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 174274f | pues es cosa cierta que cuando traen las desgracias la corriente de las estrellas, como vienen de alto a bajo, despenandose con furor y con violencia, no hay fuerza en la tierra que las detenga, ni industria humana que prevenirlas pueda. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 3d80e9f | Sir Knight of the Sorrowful Face, I cannot bear with patience some of the things your Grace says. They are enough to make me suspect that all you have told me about knighthood and winning kingdoms and empires, of bestowing islands and giving me other favors and honors according to the customs of chivalry must all be hot air and lies, and all a cock and bull story or cock and ball story or whatsoever you term it. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| bbb0302 | La razon de la sinrazon que a mi razon se hace, de tal manera mi razon enflaquece, que con razon me quejo de la vuestra fermosura. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 977cf51 | It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free. | slave | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 4b168d2 | the iniquity of a bad woman carries a further penalty with it, which is that she loses the credibility of her honor with the very same man to whose entreaties and persuasions she surrendered. He believes she will as readily yield to others and gives absolute credence to the least suspicion of this. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| c421382 | y asi, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le seco el celebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Llenosele | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 50e5cab | Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, that self-praise debaseth; | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 605e14c | An escape from penalty is better than petitioning the judges. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 5c6f454 | el tiempo, descubridor de todas las cosas, no se deja ninguna que no las saque a la luz del sol, aunque este escondida en los senos de la tierra. Y, | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 7299454 | Since then the romances of chivalry had been superseded by the flowering of literature that we know as the Spanish Golden Age, and by Cervantes's time nobody considered them to be a threat any more. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 5abc3c6 | Dunyada hicbir sovalye Ingiltere'den donen Lancelot kadar Ilgi gormedi kadinlardan | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 8cc12bf | By the one God, Sancho, no more proverbs. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 7093c35 | And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Gines, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass. | humor | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 9ec0545 | the sadness of the heart rises to the face, and in the eyes may be read the history of that which passes in the soul. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 200ca55 | Dile con lengua curiosa cosas de que no disguste, y ten por cierta una cosa: que no hay mujer que no guste de oirse llamar hermosa. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 2044342 | Ask gorunmezdir, istedigi yere girip cikar. Kimse yaptiklarinin hesabini soramaz. | Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de | ||
| 416d5aa | Butun kotu huyla, beraberlerinde az da olsa zevk getirirler Sancho; ama kiskanclik sadece tatsizlik, hinc ve ofke getirir. | Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de | ||
| 75fc0cc | but one of shallow wit, somewhat like a saltshaker with very little salt. In | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| d16bfce | Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 467623f | y dieron licencia para que a este precio se pueda vender, y mandaron que esta tasa se ponga al principio del dicho libro, y no se pueda vender sin ella. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 95322e2 | Si os la mostrara --replico don Quijote--, ?que hicierades vosotros en confesar una verdad tan notoria? La importancia esta en que sin verla lo habeis de creer, confesar, afirmar, jurar y defender; donde no, conmigo sois en batalla, gente descomunal y soberbia. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 604e97a | Many were the offenses to be undone, the wrongs to be rectified, the grievances to be redressed, the abuses to be corrected and the debts to be satisfied. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |