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Margaret Eleanor « Peggy » Atwood, née le 18 novembre 1939 à Ottawa, Ontario, est une romancière, poétesse et critique littéraire canadienne. Elle est l'un des écrivains canadiens les plus connus, en particulier pour son roman The Handmaid's Tale, publié en français en 1987, sous le titre La Servante écarlate et adapté au cinéma et en série en 2017.

✵ 18. novembre 1939  •  Autres noms Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Margaret Atwood Citations

“[…] je suis assise à ma table en bois pour griffer tant et plus le papier avec mon stylo. Non, pas griffer - les stylos ne griffent plus. Les mots roulent plutôt facilement et sans bruit sur la page; c'est réussir à les faire couler le long du bras, c'est les extirper des doigts qui est très difficile.”

Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

The Blind Assassin

“Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait - Estienne; C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur - Montaigne; (…) L'histoire, cette vieille dame exaltée et menteuse - de Maupassant.”

Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood: Citations en anglais

“But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Robber Bride

Source: The Robber Bride

“Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Penelopiad

Source: The Penelopiad

“Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”

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Source: Moral Disorder and Other Stories

“What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

Source: The Blind Assassin

“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

Source: The Blind Assassin

“I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.”

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“The proper study of Mankind is Everything.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Life is warped. I'm just in sync.”

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Margaret Atwood livre MaddAddam

Source: MaddAddam

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

The Blind Assassin

“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”

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The Progressive interview (2010)

“He was not condemned to death, freedom awaited
him. What was the temptation, the one that worked?
Perhaps he wanted to live with a woman whose life
he had saved, who had seen down into the earth but
had nevertheless followed him back up to life. It was
his only chance to be a hero, to one person at least,
for if he became the hangman the others would
despise him. He was in prison for wounding another
man, on one finger of the right hand, with a sword.
This too is history.”

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Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman

“I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, "What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?", and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, "Is there hope?"”

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Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (2007)

“I soon had a few thousand people I didn’t know sending me messages like “OMG! Is it really you?” “I love it when old ladies blog,” one early follower remarked. … and they really shone when, during the Olympics, I said that "Own the podium" was too brash to be Canadian, and suggested "A podium might be nice." Their own variations poured onto a feed tagged #cpodium: "A podium! For me?" "Rent the podium, see if we like it." "Mind if I squeeze by you to get onto that podium?"”

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I was so proud of them! It was like having 33,000 precocious grandchildren!
"Atwood in the Twittersphere", The New York Review of Books (29 March 2010)

“In general I might agree with you:
women should not contemplate war,
should not weigh tactics impartially,
or evade the word enemy,
or view both sides and denounce nothing.
Women should march for peace,
or hand out white feathers to arouse bravery,
spit themselves on bayonets
to protect their babies,
whose skulls will be split anyway,
or, having been raped repeatedly,
hang themselves with their own hair.
These are the functions that inspire general comfort.
That, and the knitting of socks for the troops
and a sort of moral cheerleading.
Also: mourning the dead.
Sons, lovers, and so forth.
All the killed children.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Morning in the Burned House

Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian

“Everyone said he was a fool.
Everyone said she was a clever woman.
They used the word ensnare.”

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Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman

“He's just a contact of hers, which is not the same as a friend. While she was in the hospital she decided that most of her friends were really just contacts.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Bodily Harm

Bodily Harm (1981)

“He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, off key, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.”

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Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24

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