Margaret Atwood Quotes
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
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He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!
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The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.
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I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
